Abhishek Bachchan: Dasvi and lessons in jail
The HinduSelf-avowedly reticent and borderline apologetic about his work, Abhishek Bachchan has decided to be totally unapologetic about his latest, Dasvi. To “not put too fine a pun on it”, there’s a “learning” at the film’s end, he says, which is not blatant but done through a very entertaining process. Bachchan concedes the difficulty of discussing the film without making it sound preachy, “but it’s really not!” he insists. For the actor, his character Gangaram Chaudhary’s greatest learning is that “you have to change” — you can’t be set in your ways because there is a larger world out there waiting to be discovered. Bachchan, 46, describes the character as a political beast for whom manipulating the system “runs in his blood.” But he’s also a loveable rogue.