Jaaved Jaaferi has always been more than an actor – a dancer, mimic, comedian, rapper, advertising copywriter, video jockey and host, and p...
Jaaved Jaaferi has always been more than an actor – a dancer, mimic, comedian, rapper, advertising copywriter, video jockey and host, and producer of documentaries (Inshallah, Football and Inshallah, Kashmir).
In David Dhawan’s Coolie No. 1, an update of his own 1995 superhit, Jaaferi dons the hat of the comic. He plays the dual roles of Jai Kishan and Jackson, a “pandit-cum-matchmaker,” Jaaferi told Scroll.in. “When he is insulted by this man, he promises vengeance. He then disguises himself as someone else, and plots to get this man’s daughter hitched with the hero, who also pretends to be someone else.”
Starring Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Sahil Vaid, and Johnny Lever, the film will be streamed on Amazon Prime Video from December 25. “Being in a race and being the only one ahead is boring,” Jaaferi observed. “But in a film with comic talent like this, everyone’s running with you, which is great.”
The son of the actor Jagdeep, Jaaferi made his Hindi film debut as a dancing villain in Subhash Ghai’s Meri Jung (1985). Since then, he has gone on to ace several areas in popular entertainment, particularly dancing and kids-oriented television. His upcoming releases include Rohit Shetty’s cop drama Sooryavanshi and the horror-comedy Bhoot Police. Excerpts from an interview.
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