Published 15:29 IST, January 29th 2021
'Good to see Tiger Shroff, Vidyut Jammwal doing their own stunts': Martial artist Tony Jaa
Thai martial artist-actor Tony admires Bollywood stars Tiger Shroff and Vidyut Jammwal for creating their own unique style in action and stunts.
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Thai martial artist-actor Tony mires Bollywood stars Tiger Shroff and Vidyut Jammwal for creating ir own unique style in action and stunts. Jaa, who is kwn world over for his martial arts techniques and received international recognition with Thai film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, said it is important to represent one's culture.
“Tiger Shroff is great, I met him in Thailand. I also met Vidyut Jammwal and I kw him really well. He''s crazy. He is doing his own stunts. It is really good to see stars do it all on ir own because you have to represent your own culture, represent something special like (about) you,” Jaa, 44, told PTI during a group interview on Zoom.
Citing example of his popular Ong-Bak franchise, Jaa said, through this film he felt happy to represent his culture, his learnings of martial arts. “This is from my heart. I can't believe movie is really a success and people kw Tony Jaa and kw my country. I am very proud. That is how it should be,” he said.
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Jaa said he was inspired to learn martial arts after watching films of legendary martial artist-actors Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Jaa started his training Muay Thai, a combat sport at of ten. He acted as a stunt double in Thai movies and later appeared in Hollywood movies with James Wan’s and was also part of Vin Diesel-starrer XXX: Return of Xander C.
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Vidyut Jammwal anunces his next
Vidyut Jammwal recently anunced his next project with producer Vipul Shah. actor took to Instagram and shared a poster of upcoming film Sanak. film is expected to be an emotional action thriller that will be helmed by Kanishk Varma and will feature actor in a different avatar.
poster showed a bed stained with blood and a machine gun kept on it. Vidyut captioned post and wrote, “SANAKNA zaroori hai, coming tomorrow! Ab Sankegi!” Film critic and tre analyst, Tran arsh revealed that film will feature Bengali actress Rukmini Maitra opposite actor as female le.
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Meanwhile, on work front, Tiger Shroff was last seen in film Baaghi 3, in which he played role of Ronnie. He was seen with actors Riteish Deshmukh, Shrdha Kapoor, and Ankita Lokhande in le roles. As mentioned in his Instagram story, during QA round, Tiger Shroff is currently prepping for his role in his upcoming movie Heropanti 2, a sequel to his debut movie.
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(with PTI inputs)
15:29 IST, January 29th 2021