Marjaavaan first look: Sidharth Malhotra pitted against an angry dwarf played by Riteish Deshmukh, see pics

The first look of Sidharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh-starrer Marjaavaan is out. After Zero, another actor plays a dwarf. See it here.

The first look of Marjaavaan, featuring Sidharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria are out. Marjaavaan posters also have the film’s villain, Riteish Deshmukh, and the actor is playing a dwarf in the film.

Marjaavaan stars Sidharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria, Rakul Preet and Riteish Deshmukh in prominent roles. (Instagram)

T Series shared the first look pictures, with the caption, “Ishq mein marne aur maarne ke liye hai yeh taiyyar! #Marjaavaan releasing on 22nd November 2019.” In two other pictures, Sidharth and Riteish walk with the dominating figure of Ravana looming in the background. The caption reads: “Ek maarega, ek marega! #Marjaavaan releasing on 22nd November 2019.”

An earlier Mumbai Mirror report had a picture which showed Riteish walking menacingly behind Sidharth. The actor plays a midget, much like Shah Rukh Khan’s character in Zero. Both have guns in their hands.

The two were pitted against each other in Ek Villain earlier . The report added that Riteish wasn’t too keen on playing a negative role again. The makers, Bhushan Kumar and Nikhil Advani and director Milap Zaveri were aware of it so they decided to give the character a twist -- they made him a midget but gave him a larger-than-life personality. Riteish’s villain is called Vishnu in the film.

The report quoted Milap as saying, “We decided to make his villain three-foot tall but larger-than-life with a wicked sense of humour. His Vishnu is arrogant and thinks he is invincible.” Interestingly, the character has a reference to the fifth avatar of Lord Vishnu, Vamana, and it is also mentioned in one of the dialogues.

Aware that comparisons are bound to be drawn with Shah Rukh Khan’s character in Zero, Milap was quoted as saying, “Shah Rukh played a smaller version of himself. We storyboarded the screenplay and had a midget gentleman on the sets for Riteish to imbibe certain mannerisms and ensure he didn’t go overboard or underplay the physical aspects of the character.”

Milap acknowledged that the shooting of the film did pose many technical difficulties. Marjaavaan will be Tara’s second outing after Student of the Year. Rakul Preet, who also stars in the film, will be seen for a second time with Sidharth after Aiyaary. She is on a high after the success of her last Hindi film, De De Pyaar De, also starring Ajay Devgn and Tabu.

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