A TOUGH ACT
“DIRECTOR MABEL CHEUNG COMPARED ME TO JACKIE CHAN IN MARD KO DARD NAHIN HOTA... AT THE MACAU FILM FESTIVAL… WHEN SHE TOOK THE LEGEND’S NAME IN THE SAME BREATH AS MINE, IT SEEMED SURREAL”
PHOTOGRAPH: PALASH VERMA
Even before his first film, , released in India, it was the toast of international film festivals. It earned a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival and also the People’s Choice Award: Midnight Madness. What’s more, young Abhimanyu Dassani, who plays a guy with congenital resistance to pain in the film, won the Best Debut Award at the Macau Film Festival. It was a defining moment when renowned director, Mabel Cheung, compared Abhimanyu to his childhood hero Jackie Chan. The film also seemed to be a reboot of his childhood memories, animated, Jack Black’s Po from and many more…
