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Nawazuddin Siddiqui said he felt guilty after shooting his first Tamil film, Petta. In an interview with Galata Plus, the actor claimed that he felt guilty after starring in Karthik Subbaraj’s Tamil film, despite acting alongside superstar Rajinikanth. (Also read: Nawazuddin Siddiqui says he cannot ask people for jobs, he will even sell shoes to make his own films)
Nawazuddin in Petta
“When I did Petta with Rajini sir, after returning from the shoot, I felt very guilty. That I’m charging money for something I don’t even know about. I felt like I had fooled everyone. Because I was just lip-syncing to the cues. I couldn’t understand many words, but I was doing it. Even if it is effective, you feel very embarrassed. And if you get paid for it, you ask yourself, ‘Am I committing fraud?’” Nawazuddin said in Hindi in the interview.
Produced by Sun Pictures, Petta is directed by pizza fame Karthik Subbaraj and has music by Anirudh Ravichander. The film also stars Vijay Sethupathy, Simran, Trisha and Sasikumar. Petta, which roughly translates to one’s local fortress in Tamil, was released alongside the Siva-directed Ajith-Nayanthara starrer Viswasam back in 2019.
Course correction at Saindhav
Nawazuddin then explained that he learned his lesson from the sets of Petta and corrected course in his recent debut Telugu film, Saindhav. “I did my own dubbing. And in each dialogue I knew its meaning, what I said and why I said it. Then I felt less guilty,” he added.
Directed by Sailesh Kolanu and produced by Venkat Boyanapalli, the action-packed 2023 film Saindhav also stars Venkatesh Daggubati, Shraddha Srinath, Ruhani Sharma, Andrea Jeremiah, Sara and Jayaprakash. Saindhav released in theaters on January 13 and is now streaming on Prime Video India. In a film hailed as a ‘desi John Wick’, Nawazuddin played a ruthless gangster named Vikas Malik, who takes on Venkatesh’s lead character.
Nawazuddin will be next seen in Adbhut, Noorani Chehra and Sangeen.