Speaking with Subhash K Jha, Tiger Shroff talks career, and shares his thoughts on his new film Baaghi 4.
Tiger, the past few years have not been kind to your career. What are you thoughts at the moment?
Feeling restless, happy, excited, blessed, grateful that the audiences are going to see a very different side of me in my next release Baaghi 4. So yeah, really looking forward to their response. The last few years… it’s definitely not been easy, but it’s been such a learning curve and I think because of it I’ve, you know, sort of become a better artist, I would say.
So you feel the change in you?
I’ve put in all those learnings into Baaghi 4 and I’m hoping that the audience and you, Sir, see it. As I mentioned earlier, you can never really tell the fate of a film. We’ve honestly given our thousand percent on this one and I’m just so grateful God has blessed the Baaghi franchise and thus it reaching its fourth instalment is a very, very big deal for me. I’m very, very grateful to Sajid Nadiadwala Sir for giving me this platform and giving me this franchise.
Your parents have been by your side throughout the dark period?
My parents are my soulmates. I’m really, really grateful and blessed .
What do you think what wrong with your last release?
With Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, honestly, I thought that it had everything going for it. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite connect with the audiences. But I really, really enjoyed the whole process of shooting the film and I’m still forever grateful to (producers) Vashu Bhagnaniji and Jackky Bhagnaniji , to our director Ali Abbas Zafar Sir who’s one of my most favourite directors, and of course, my co-actor and one of my childhood heroes, Akshay Kumar sir. We had a blast shooting the film and I wouldn’t change anything if I had to do the film again.
Baaghi 4 looks very violent. Your young fans would be left out?
I do believe action is definitely a forte of mine. Very, very grateful that people have accepted me as an action hero in the industry. It’s tough to constantly reinvent myself in the genre though but with Baaghi 4, I’m quite confident that this is a very, very different aspect and a perspective and a language to the action that I’ve attempted. So, hoping that the audiences enjoy that. This is a very different version of me and a very different I guess, sub-genre in the action genre. So yeah, I’m hoping that how they’ve accepted me when I did a little something different in War, they would accept me the same way in this avatar.
What do we see you next?
Next, I have a film with Murad Khetani Sir. That’s next alongside, I’ll be simultaneously shooting Lag Ja Gale for Karan Johar sir’s banner Dharma. So yeah, looking forward to it. One can never really predict the fate of a film.
