‘Jazbaa’ a film with an ‘intense’ subject

KARACHI: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has returned to the big screen after a gap of five years in “Jazbaa” with Irfan Khan and Shabana Azmi.
“Comeback from where? For me she was always here. She didn’t go anywhere. An actor should be allowed a gap. Her audience is still with her. People are her fan, her admirers, and they’ll definitely go to watch her,” said 48 years old actor Irfan Khan who will be seen along with Aishwarya Rai in Sanjay Gupta’s new film Jazbaa.
In a career spanning 27 years, The Piku actor said, despite her stardom, Aishwarya is a grounded person. “She has a very larger-than-life image but she is very simple. She takes care of people around her and is unlike the big superstar image she has. She is much grounded.”
Irfan was recently seen in Meghna Gulzar’s murder mystery Talvar. Jazbaa, which opens on October 9, is a departure from his latest real-life inspired drama.
“I worked at different times for Talvar and Jazbaa but they are coming out almost together. Talvar was purely based on facts, there was no fiction, except for my track with Tabu. Nothing was imagined, it was a mixture of all facts. Jazbaa is pure fiction. Here my approach to acting is not to present a reality but to engage the audience and give them a good film, which is not based on any facts,” he said.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan says she has always chosen her movies based on their script, instead of being ‘calculative’ about her roles. “My attitude as an actor is to respond to a script of a film. I don’t carry anything more than that. I have never been calculative as an actor. I have always responded to the scripts and opportunity to work with an incredible team,” Aishwarya, who was in Delhi to promote Jazbaa, said to reporters. Ash also revealed that Jazbaa was a film with an ‘intense subject’, and that it was something she would have chosen even after five years.
“I am happy being a part of it today. I would’ve accepted this movie after five years too. I said yes to the subject,” she said. The Devdas actress, who was last seen on the big screen in the 2010’s Guzaarish, said that she never thought that she has gone away from the limelight.