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Indian Documentary ‘Urf’ Explores World of Bollywood Lookalikes – Rotterdam

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Naman Ramachandran The weird, wonderful and sometimes sad world of actors who make a living as lookalikes of Bollywood superstars is the subject of Geetika Narang Abbasi’s documentary “Urf,” world premiering in the Cinema Regained strand of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.The actors are known by the names of the stars they portray, with the prefix Jr. – short for Junior. “Urf,” which translates as also known as or alias, follows several lookalikes, but mainly focuses on Kishore Bhanushali a.k.a.

Jr. Dev Anand, Firoz Khan a.k.a. Jr. Amitabh Bachchan, and Prashant Walde, a.k.a. Jr. Shah Rukh Khan.“I was very intrigued by the whole phenomenon of imitation, of assuming a star’s personality and being a ‘reflected’ star.

Soon I realized how it is also unique to our films – there have been mainstream films with lookalikes in the lead and then, of course, they feature in comedy tracks of countless films,” Abbasi tells Variety. “Film stars are treated as demi gods in our country.

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