Arjun Kapoor, who is currently shooting for Mohit Suri’s Half
Girlfriend, says that the most challenging part about lending his voice
for the Hindi version of the Ice Age: Collision Course, the franchise’s
latest outing, was doing “a high energy character” like Buck. Kapoor
will be making his voice-over debut with the fifth film of the series,
which has Scrat (the squirrel) activating a UFO by accident, causing it
to blast off into space and inadvertently sending a huge asteroid
hurtling towards Earth. The plot revolves around the herd coming up
with various (read crazy and humorous) ideas to stop it
‘Buck’ing UP“The
character is pretty out there. He is larger than life and full of fun.
He is a little goofy, too, a little over-intelligent and over-smart, but
still a kind-hearted soul,” says Kapoor, describing the one-eyed weasel
whom he also terms as “very Hindi film hero-esque”. To play the
British-Australian character—first introduced to us in Ice Age: The Dawn
of Dinosaurs (2009)— Kapoor has picked up Gujarati and Hyderabadi
accents and even imitates certain characters. Talking about whether Buck
bears any resemblance to him, he says that the character is not similar
to him and that’s what was fun about the experience. “He is so
different from me that’s why I enjoyed playing him,” says the
31-year-old, who now joins the likes of Sonakshi Sinha, Priyanka Chopra
and Irrfan Khan, who have also lent their voices to animation films.
Experimenting with different voices along the way, Kapoor also imitated
his uncle Anil Kapoor with his trademark jhakaas, along with doing
imitations of Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) and Circuit (Arshad Warsi).
Changing GearsKapoor
is currently filming for the movie adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s Half
Girlfriend. Although he admits to not having read the book, he says a
lot of work has gone into perfecting the accent and dialect of his
character, who hails from a village in Bihar. “I am also spending time
with people from Bihar to understand how they live, how they are, what
their thought processes are, and what the culture is like. We did
workshops in Mumbai, with a lot of actors who hail from Bihar and that
kind of helped me get the accent,” says Kapoor, who also had to learn
basketball since his character plays the sport. “Thankfully I had played
it in school, so it came in handy,” he says. This is the first time
that Kapoor will be working with director Mohit Suri. “I have always
wanted to work with him. I think we have come together for the correct
film. It’s truly going to be a different film for him and me,” he says.
Other directors on Kapoor’s wishlist include Imtiaz Ali, Farhan Akhtar,
Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra, Rajkumar
Hirani, Rohit Shetty and Ayan Mukherjee, among others.
Source:http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/Goofing-around-like-Arjun-Kapoor/2016/07/08/article3519760.ece