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Arya Babbar's Friendship with Abhishek Bachchan
By:
R
Manishaa,
Glamsham
Tuesday,
January
30,
2007
Arya
Babbar'brief
role
in
Mani
Ratnam's
Guru
(as
Abhishek's
friend
and
brother-in-law
who
later
rebels
against
him)
may
have
got
him
little
acclaim
in
comparison
to
Abhishek's
towering
role
in
the
film
but
Babbar
regards
the
experience
as
something
that
he
would
like
to
treasure
in
his
career.
"I
took
up
the
role
for
the
sheer
pleasure
of
working
with
ace
director
like
Mani
Ratnam
but
the
best
part
about
it
was
the
experience
of
working
with
Abhishek
with
whom
I
have
shared
a
long
association
off
screen," he
reveals.
According
to
him,
he
and
Abhishek
have
been
good
friends
over
a
period
of
time,
due
to
the
family
ties
and
the
Sahara
connection,
which
was
one
of
the
reasons,
they
got
along
like
a
house
on
fire
during
the
shooting
of
the
film.
Ask him whether his relationship with Abhishek has changed in the wake of his father now being a political rival (he opted out of the Samajwadi party) to Abhishek's father, Amitabh Bachchan, who is a strong campaigner for the party. He smiles at that. "I have never been influenced in my choice of friends by my father's political leanings but talking about it, let me clarify that it is Jaya aunty who is politically involved and not Amit-uncle. He is hardly into politics though he has friends who are actively into politics. Besides, we are very good family friends irrespective of everything else," he says.
Meanwhile he is all geared up for his first major international release, Partition, scheduled to release in the first week of February. The film portrayed against the backdrop of partition has him playing the role of the chief antagonist. That will be followed by the release of a Canadian production, A TUNE FOR HER, where he essays a romantic role. Apart from that he is looking forward to his next major stage performance on February 9, in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which he plays the role of Romeo. The play has been directed by famous screenplay writer, Atul Tiwari, who has been credited with the screenplay of several thought-provoking films like DROH KAAL. "Isn't that enough for an actor to be creatively charged? I don't think one can ask for more," he says.
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