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Rajkummar plays 324year-old man in

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down or underestim­ation.

“His reaction to any idea that fails is to almost immediatel­y come up with a new one. He’s like a fighter who pops back up on his feet before you even noticed he’d been knocked down,” wrote Taylor. The ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’ singer added how Sheeran had asked to listen to his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ before it won the Grammy.“it was a few weeks later when he met me in a dance-shoe store in London, where I was picking out rehearsal outfits, and said, ‘You have to hear this’. It was a song he’d just finished called ‘Thinking Out Loud,’ which went on to win Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2016.” MUMBAI: National Film Award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao will be seen playing a man aged 324 in the forthcomin­g film Raabta. The just released trailer of Raabta is packed with intrigue, love and the promise of a powerful storyline. The trailer ends with an element of surprise.

At the end of the trailer, one can spot a mysterious looking character, played by the Trapped actor. The film’s team did 16 look test before picking the final one. Director Dinesh Vijan and Rajkumar sat along with the team over a couple of days to get the final look in place. A special team from Los Angeles got on board and worked with Zuby Johal of Dirty Hands company to etch the look for the actor.

“Rajkummar was kind enough to do me a favour. It was tedious but, he patiently sat through it everyday. I think, the idea of the prosthetic­s making him completely unrecognis­able excited him as an actor,” said Vijan in a statement. In addition to his look, his body posture and voice modulation had to be worked upon. Raj-

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