'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. Jaa, who is known 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 know him really well. He''s crazy. He is doing his own stunts. It is really good to see stars do it all on their 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 the 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 the movie is really a success and people know Tony Jaa and know my country. I am very proud. That is how it should be,” he said. 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 the age 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 Cage. The 'Power' movie 2021 cast boasts of Shruti Haasan, Vidyut Jammwal and more Vidyut Jammwal announces his next Vidyut Jammwal recently announced his next project with producer Vipul Shah. The actor took to Instagram and shared a poster of the upcoming film Sanak. The film is expected to be an emotional action thriller that will be helmed by Kanishk Varma and will feature the actor in a different avatar. The poster showed a bed stained with blood and a machine gun kept on it. Vidyut captioned the post and wrote, “SANAKNA zaroori hai, coming tomorrow! Ab Sankegi!” Film critic and trade analyst, Tran Adarsh revealed that the film will feature Bengali actress Rukmini Maitra opposite the actor as the female lead. Tiger Shroff shares BTS video from 'Casanova', flaunts his 'love for long takes' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vidyut Jammwal (@mevidyutjammwal) Meanwhile, on the work front, Tiger Shroff was last seen in the film Baaghi 3, in which he played the role of Ronnie. He was seen with actors Riteish Deshmukh, Shraddha Kapoor, and Ankita Lokhande in the lead roles. As mentioned in his Instagram story, during the QA round, Tiger Shroff is currently prepping for his role in his upcoming movie Heropanti 2, a sequel to his debut movie. (with PTI inputs)

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'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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