The lead actors change the Tezz climax. Decide to keep their clothes on. A fistfight between a lean bodied Sonu Sood and the original shirtless hero Salman Khan in the climax managed to keep the audience hooked in Arbaaz Khan’s Dabangg. And that’s exactly how Priyadarshan had planned the last fight scene in his upcoming film Tezz – brutal and barechested. However, the actors Ajay Devgn and Anil Kapoor keeping the brutal part in place, have dropped the idea of revealing their torso for the fight sequence.
The sequence that was supposed to get shot in an around London’s Saint Pancras station was shot last week in Mumbai on a set designed by Sabu Cyril to match the Pancras area. While the fight between Devgn and Kapoor remained as planned, the plan to present both heroes in a bare-chested avatar was abandoned.
A source close to the project revealed to Mumbai Mirror, “While Ajay who has got into a fine physical shape during Singham was all for it, Anil in spite of his best intentions, just couldn’t. Anil made a sincere attempt to get into a bare-able shape. But the idea was finally dropped. Anil has always been shy about taking off his shirt. Other than the love-making scene in Jaanbaaz with Dimple he always prefers to keep his shirt on.”
And thus the climax of Tezz was shot in the heart of Mumbai with the two actors buttoned up and pretending to fight it out outside Pancras station.
When questioned about the changed climax sequence director Priyadarshan said, “No we don’t have Anil and Ajay bare-chested. This is not the Dabangg kind of climax. But yes, it’s pretty gory. I’d say Priyadarshan didn’t shoot this bloodied and savage Anil-Ajay fight. Ridley Scott did. Ridley is my favourite. I’ve tried to bring in his raw realism in the fight. It’s a fight between equals. It’s a fight between right and right. Till the last the audience wouldn’t know whether Anil or Ajay would win the fight.”
“Anil has a vast reputation as a hero. Long back in films like Tezaab he established himself as a hero of the masses. So audiences won’t be looking at his muscle power. They will look at him as a symbol of moral rightness. Hence the fight with Ajay has turned out super-convincing. I am very proud of it,” added the filmmaker.
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