Trishaan's 'golden opportunity' to train Akshay Kumar in 'Gold'.

Casting Director and Actor, Trishaan
who is among the very few Indian
Casting Directors to have made a mark
with his access to the Casting Society of
America, was recently bestowed with the
golden opportunity' of training popular
actor Akshay Kumar for his Bengali diction
in the soon-to-be-released big-ticket
movie, Gold!!
For the uninitiated, Trishaan along with
his partner Shubham Gaur happened to
be the first Casting Director team to be
awarded the IWM Digital Award for the
Best Casting Director in the web space at
the first-of-its-kind digital awards,
organized by IWMBuzz.com.
Trishaan being a Bengali was apt for the
job and he did it awesomely well!!
This was the first time that Trishaan
trained an actor for a particular dialect.
However, the art of training is not new to
him, as he has held workshops earlier and
has trained people. Earlier, he has trained
blind people for a film for which he also
did the casting. However, training as big a
star like Akshay Kumar was a first
experience for him.
Says Trishaan, "I have been a fan of
Akshay Kumar from childhood. There was
a specific language that had to be taught
to him. Akshay's character, Tapan Das is a
Bengali. All my friends who are especially
from West Bengal, speak Hindi in a certain
way, which many times is grammatically
wrong, and the pronounciations are not
perfect. So these mistakes had to be
incorporated in Akshay's language. The
flaws in language had to be put in to
make it real. There is a difference between
somebody who is from West Bengal and
one from East Bengal. Tapan Das is
someone who is born and brought up in
Kolkata and speaks in a certain way. I am
a Bengali and understand the language
very well.
Trishaan was always with Akshay Kumar
from the day one of reading till the film
was completely made. "I was always there
from the beginning of script reading with
Akshay. I used to go to his place and read
with him. Phrases and idioms, specific to
Kolkata used to be added in the lines. He
was also extremely hard-working. He is
very famous as an actor as his
improvisation in the role is always top-
notch. Not only during shoot, but off the
shoot too, I had to reheasse with him. He
is a perfectionist to the core. I was also
stationed in the same hotel where his
team was placed. The challenge was that
since he was a proper Punjabi guy, he has
to first neutralize the Punjabi and then
pick up the nuances of Hindi with this
Bengali accent, he adds.
Trishaan narrates a certain incident which
proves Akshay's sincerity and dedication
in learning the art to the T. "He once called
his mom and instead of speaking in
Punjabi, he was speaking in Hindi with
Bengali accent. Work happened that well
and he got into the skin of the character
with such perfection.
Not only has Trishaan trained Akshay
Kumar in his dialect, but has also acted in
Gold and also happens to be Akshay's co-
actor. "I have done a role in the film as
well where I am on the negative side. It
was fun where at one point of time I was
working on his dialect, on the other side, I
was against him as character.
Trishaan is a rare gem, as he is the only
Casting Director who is a trained actor
himself (trained from FTII). He has cast for
international films and series like Furious
7, Sense 8, Viceroy's House, Million Dollar
Arm etc.
As his upcomimg projects, he has a series
for European channel, ITV titled Beecham
House which is being directed by Gurinder
Chaddha for which his Company is casting.
"It is a period drama of late 17 century,
for which we will be bringing in lot of big
names from Mumbai.
He has movies Hotel Mumbai, The Wedding
Guest and Chaman Bahar to release.

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