Overview
- Bedi told attendees at the News18 India Amrit Ratna Samman on Wednesday that his portrayal of Jameel Jamali in Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar has given him renewed public recognition.
- He credited platforms like Instagram with greatly multiplying the film's audience and emotional response compared with earlier eras of posters and word-of-mouth.
- Bedi said he suggested small comic 'pockets' for the tense spy thriller, that director Aditya Dhar was initially reluctant, and that both later embraced the experiment during filming.
- He described delivering a spontaneous line referencing ducks, proposing in post-production that a lake and ducks be digitally added to match the joke, and said the director kept the moment.
- Bedi dismissed online claims that the Dhurandhar script came from the Prime Minister's Office as implausible, and he framed his current resurgence against earlier career work and FTII training.