Rajkummar Rao Has Spoilt Me As A Filmmaker: 'HIT' Helmer Sailesh Kolanu

The upcoming film revolves around Vikram (Rao), a police officer with the fictitious 'Homicide Intervention Team' (HIT). Struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), he is on the trail of a missing woman.

A self-confessed fan of Rao바카라�s work, Kolanu said he was amazed to see the commitment of the actor towards every single shot in the film. 바카라�We all know what Raj is capable of. I don바카라�t think there is any character he won바카라�t be able to play. As a person, to be in this industry for this long, he is still so passionate about every single shot. It ignites passion in me as well."

"I felt many a time he was hurting himself but he was acting. He was shaken up for a few seconds and he was back to doing masti after the shot was over. He has spoilt me, now if I go back (to the South), I will be expecting people to be like Raj. I don바카라�t know how many actors I will find like that, 바카라� the director told PTI in an interview.

The process of watching Rao seamlessly transform into his character, Kolanu said, was "magical". 바카라�He brings his own spin to the whole scene and sometimes it is way better than what I conceived. I was surprised,바카라� he added. As a person, the director said, Rao, is a grounded and humble man, who oozes positive energy. 바카라�He never says no to anything, never insecure about anything,바카라� he added.

'HIT' is a remake of Kolanu's 2020 Telugu crime investigative action thriller of the same name, starring Vishwak Sen and Ruhani Sharma. Kolanu said the film is a tribute to the police force and hence he felt it was necessary to glorify Rao's character a bit. 

바카라�What I want to portray with 바카라�HIT바카라� is the amount of work and detailing that goes into keeping people safe by the police department. In other words, it is glorifying the police. We are staying true to their world and being real and letting the audience experience the glimpse of hard work that they put in to keep the city safe."

The director stated that cinematically 'HIT' is unlike the larger-than-life image of a cop in cinema. 바카라�It is not a regular cop film. It is realistic. The cop is not a superhero. I am trying to highlight the realness of the whole business,바카라� Kolanu added.

For the film, the 36-year-old director based his research on the statistics from media reports in which he found that a missing person's case often ends in murder. 바카라�If somebody goes missing and you don바카라�t find them for 48 hours statistically, they are more likely to be found dead, unfortunately. And this department steps at the moment somebody goes missing to try and stop that murder from happening,바카라� he said, adding there should be a department like 'HIT' in real life too.

A former associate professor in medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Kolanu said his qualification helped him etch out the forensic process in the film with ease.

'HIT' is an incident that has happened in this world in somebody's life and I have put all of them together and made a fictional story. It is not inspired by one true event, it is a combination of a number of real-life cases.바카라�

Going forward, Kolanu said, he has a different roadmap for the Hindi and South versions of his 'HIT' cop universe. He said he is treating the franchise in the North as character-based and in the South as department-based, which means more actors will be added. "At one point, maybe bring them all together. The boundaries (of language in cinema) are getting blurred today and this is the best way to do it,바카라� he added.

Also starring Sanya Malhotra, 'HIT' is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Dil Raju, Krishan Kumar, and Kuldeep Rathore. It is slated to be released on Friday.