Ajay Devgn Speaks On His Upcoming Flick ‘Tezz’

It’s unusual for an actor to give an interview for one film while he is shooting for another but it did not pose any problem for Ajay Devgn. He quite readily gave an interview for his upcoming film Tezz on the sets of his other film Bol Bachchan.

It helps that he is a major star for such things to happen. But also, the director of Bol Bachchan — Rohit Shetty — is one of his close pals.

The friendship stems from the olden days when their fathers — action director Veeru Devgan and stuntman Shetty — worked together.

Ajay has starred in every one of Rohit’s seven movies.

On the sets of Bol Bachchan, junior artistes dressed in colourful Rajasthani attire, complete with camels, were wandering about. The film has been largely shot in Jaipur, and some patchwork scenes are being shot here — which explained the Rajasthani look.

Bol Bachchan is apparently a remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s brilliant 1979 film Gol Maal, starring Amol Palekar and Utpal Dutt.

Besides Devgn, the new version also stars Abhishek Bachchan, Asin and Prachi Desai. It’s not a “ditto copy,” Ajay informs. For instance, he plays Utpal Dutt’s character — but even though Dutt played the girl’s father, Ajay plays the girl’s older brother.

But enough about BB.

I was here to talk to Devgn about Tezz, and after a lavish lunch (rajma, dahi pakoda kadi, dabba ghosh, chicken biryani, chicken kabab and gulab jamun), got down to business.

“Tezz is an emotional action thriller,” Devgn tells us. “People think I play a terrorist in the film, but I don’t. The story is of an emotional man who is out for revenge against the system, but he doesn’t want to harm anyone.

“I would call my character positive; sometimes people do wrong because of circumstances, but they change. My character is like that, he doesn’t want to harm anybody.”

Anil Kapoor plays a cop in the film, who is after Devgn. Zayed Khan is helping Ajay in his mission and Kangna Ranaut is his wife. Source