Revealed! Who Made Rahul Dravid ‘Indiranagar ka Gunda’

Ever since, he has been ‘Mr Dependable’ for many brands over the years, Dravid’s commercials had never shown him out of the ideal image of a calm person and the cricketer never went further beyond simple line reading.

And if we think of one ad, the commercial that is definitely better Dravid’s turn in the late 90s Kissan jam ad, which had ‘Jammy’ put on a bunch of disguises — dressed up as a girl, a monk and (inexplicably) a vampire.

Shot in half a day, the commercial was a mix of improvisation and careful planning. The writer of the advertisement is none other than Tanmay Bhat with Vishal Dayama. And it is directed by Ayappa KS

“We were hoping that he actually gets stressed out and gets angry,” Ayappa director of the advertisement says. “We kind of simulated a jam for the shoot where, on one side, you get somebody to just scream at him. So he reacts to it and also kind of forgets that is in front of a camera. Almost like theatre, we kind of have some improvisational acting with him, and he pulled it off. But he never got angry, that never happened. There were no star tantrums.

“I screamed out a couple of lines to give him a basic idea. And then he got it. It’s very hard for a non-actor to explode like that.”

🤣 who wants a behind the scenes vlog of this? https://t.co/FCMF8WFM8U

— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) April 9, 2021

On sharing how Dravid handled the shooting, the writers say.., Dravid was his usual professional self. Comedian Tanmay Bhat tweeted, “Rahul Dravid is one of the nicest, politest people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting… most pleasantly surprising was his incredible curiousity. He asked about punchlines, and delivery, and the science behind writing and directing comedy. (sic)”. Co-writer Vishal Dayama shared an on-set photo, with the caption: “took a pic with this legend when he was eating baadam from the same packet as ours.”

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“We were not 100 per cent sure of how it’s gonna turn out. So we had planned a lot of backup physical gags as well. But then we met him in the morning and he seemed very chilled and not very rattled by it,” says Ayappa.

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