The Ikkis director finds it bitter-sweet to think back on the experiences with the veteran actor on set

xQ Yours is the last film that Dharmendra worked on. So I think it has acquired a new sense of relevance.

Yes. I worked with him earlier, in Johnny Gaddar, which he regarded as one of his favourite films in recent times. We had a fun shooting that. And now Ikkis.

He was still the same affectionate Dharamji but he was even more hungry because Johnny Gaddar was a story where he was part of an ensemble cast and in Ikkis he had a very substantial role.

Q Dharamji was part of the original cast, wasn’t he?

Yes of course. When the subject came up, I felt it would be a wonderful role for him, and called him up. He used to keep telling me, ‘Let’s do something.’ And he had a lot of unspent en

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