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Sammir Dattani seems to be on a high these days, ask him why and he says "It's this buzz in the air!" And once he starts speaking you can almost feel that ‘buzz' too because he just can't stop talking. There are
many reason for his excitement, firstly is the Dubai Film Festival he will be goingfor.
Says Sammir, "Right now I'm looking forward to going to Dubai for the Film Festival
on December 9 where Mr Shyam Benegal's Well Done Abba is being
screened.
To be part of a film by Shyam Babu is any actor's dream
come true. The experience was fabulous the people were fabulous and I
got chance to shoot with one of my favourite actors of all time,
Boman Irani."
Well Done Abba is the second film to bring Sammir and Minissha Lamba
together. "I had a guest appearance in Madhur Bhandarkar's Corporate
with Minissha.
For Shyam Babu's film we spent a lot more time
together. Minissha is extremely sweet and geniune. But working with
Shyam Babu? Now that's something else!"
That's not all, there is more reason to the excitement, which happens
to be the shoot for Karan Johar's I Hate Love Stories with Sonam
Kapoor and Imran Khan.
Speaking about the Karan Johar (Dharma) experience Sammir says,
"Yes the shoot in on full swing in Mumbai but all I'll say is, this
is the most comfortable unit I've worked with since my debut with
the Rajshris' Uff...Kya Jadoo Mohabbat Hai.
The
director Punit Malhotra knows exactly what he wants. And Sonam is
loads of fun to work with. We are all pretty much a bunch of
youngsters on the set having fun and working very hard at the same
time."
Sammir was constantly in and out of Mumbai as he'd been shooting in 3 cities.
"Sometimes I wake up in the morning not knowing where I am. I was
in Chennai shooting with Shreya Saran for a film. For this film we
were traveling to and fro from Mumbai to Chennai to a place close to
Vishakhapatnam where there was no airport.
Then I had to rush to
Jodhpur for a longish stint of Percept Pictures 8. Now I'm back in
Mumbai for IHLS."
He adds laughing, " You know what I can't sleep without unpacking my
luggage no matter what time of the night I reach my destination.
People around me think it's an OCD, but I say I'm just plain
organized!
Lately with my schedule each time I unpack I wonder why I
even try, because soon it's time to pack again. I think I'm going to
at least try to learn how to live out of a suitcase for a change! "
As though waking up in a different city every other day was not
enough Sammir underwent a series of spooky experiences while
shooting in a Fort in Jodhpur for Percept Pictures' supernatural
thriller '8'.
"I don't know what it was, maybe it was the atmosphere of the place or
just the atmosphere on set that I carried with me to my room.
But I'd
constantly feel a presence in my room and caught myself scanning the
room a number of times just to make sure it was just me there.
I'm not
superstitious but when I heard one of the king's dancers had died in
that room, I demanded a change."
"I know every other place from forts to schools have such legends, but
if am working on a horror film I'm not carrying a part of it back with
me just in case the dancer girl decides to haunt me for life, just
because I decided to share her room." Laughs Sammir.
Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:12 IST