Exclusive: Vidyut Jammwal reveals the real reason why he started Action Hero Films

Vidyut Jaamwal is one of the best action heroes that our industry. His amazing skills in martial arts and action sequences on screen have garnered him many fans. During an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble, the IB 71 actor sat with us and spoke about his production house, Action Hero Films. The company’s first venture is IB 71

Talking about why he started his production company, Vidyut said, “ The reason for starting Action Hero films was to work with talent that I’ve always noticed and watched but haven’t been given a chance. When we were casting for the 30 agents the criteria was that we cast actors who’ve been sitting in the wings”.

He further added, “ National School of Drama (NSD) has so much talent but very few people getting the recognition. So we called the casting directories, we said that first call all the  NSDs who haven’t been called for auditions for a while. Let’s call all the actors that we’ve watched in the cinema and have been missing. let’s call the technicians, let’s call the editors, the cameraman, everybody. So the amalgamation of all this talent, the way we shot the movie, the amount of fun we had. Everybody was passionate, everybody was giving 200 per cent”. 

The Commando star spoke about what the production house stands for, “Action Hero  film is for people who believe they have talent and they believe that there is no hope. The majority is very high”.

Vidyut on martial arts

Vidyut Jammwal is also a professional martial artist. He is skilled in the form of Kalaripayattu. He calls it the mother of all martial arts. “I wanted people to stop talking about karate and kung fu. For me, it was imperative that people know what Kalaripayattu is. It is the mother of all martial arts. So my aim was for people to know about it. I was awarded the Jackie Chan award and when they called me on stage and said Vidyut Jammwal, Kalaripayattu I felt very proud. For me, martial arts come with action, which India represents. 

Vidyut’s last venture was IB 71 which released on May 12.  

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