We are going to give you some speech from Lage Raho Munna Bhai.” It was big, a very serious speech about injustice. I was just about to leave India and they said, “Can you come back in? This time, you can read at home and practice.
I tried to perform it, and the casting director said, “You don’t speak Hindi!” I said, “Yeah, I told you guys this,” and she said, “Thanks.” I didn’t know what it was saying somebody had to explain it to me. They had given me three pages and I couldn’t really read it. It was a very hush-hush project and I was auditioning for Sharman Joshi’s role at that point. Hindi, and I have no interest being in Bollywood films as an actor.” But my mom and my friends said, “You know, it’s an experience to audition.” I thought that was valid, so I decided to go over there and audition. I said, “I’m in India, actually.” So she said, “Oh, you should just go to the main office and audition.” I said, “I don’t speak She’s an Indian-American like me and we had kept in touch and she informed me that they were auditioning in L.A. My friend, who is Marathi (I had met her at a Marathi convention here in America), was helping him. But on my way out, I happened, by coincidence, to meet the assistant writer of 3 Idiots who was working with Abhijat Joshi, who at that time was a professor in Ohio and doing part-time writing.
When I went to India, a lot of people took meetings, but you know, back then it was all about stars-‘Get Salman Khan, get somebody in there and we’ll make the film.’ I was pretty dissatisfied with that experience. So I thought there may be some opportunity in India. and I started editing feature films and writing I wanted to make, but they were too Indian for America. A lot of people don’t know this, but I’m a trained filmmaker and film editor from NYU film school. It was actually the director who wanted me.
How did you get recruited by Aamir Khan?Īamir Khan wasn’t a part of the casting process. Omi, your biggest signature item is 3 Idiots. Khabar catches up with this talented actor on his spectacular Bollywood debut, his aspirations, the current status of Asians in mainstream American entertainment, and much more. who played this extraordinary character, was the surprise package in the film, holding his own against superstar Aamir Khan. Omi Vaidya, then an unknown actor from the U.S. “The Silencer,” in the Bollywood megahit 3 Idiots ? Cocky, manipulative, and mean by turns, he had audiences in splits with his bizarrely accented Hindi and brilliant comic timing.
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