“I can’t see Freaky Ali working without Nawazuddin Siddiqui” – Sohail Khan : Bollywood News

Sohail Khan is not the least nervous about the release of Freaky Ali, the film about an accidental golfer which he has directed.

“I can’t see Freaky Ali working without Nawazuddin Siddiqui” – Sohail Khan

"Apart from movies, I've always been interested in sports. I play cricket and a lot of other games. In fact, I've starred in a film on boxing Aryan, which didn't do well. I feel it came ahead of its times."

Aryan director Abhishek Kapoor moved on to the flop Fitoor recently. Tongue firmly in cheek, Sohail Khan comments, "He could have made a dozen 'Aryans' with the kind of money he spent on Fitoor. Or maybe even the whole Rocky series."

Sohail Khan says he wanted to make a film on the game of golf. "People think it's an elitist game meant for the rich and the privileged. My basic premise for the film was what if someone from the lower strata of society, in this case an undergarment seller from small town, gets thrown into the vast elitist green acres of golf? What if this simpleton doesn't know of the existence of the expert golfer within him? That's how this film started."

This is where writer Raaj Shaandilya came to help Sohail Khan co-write the script. "I've known him from the time he was working on Comedy Circus. I was a judge on the show. I needed his sensibility in Freaky Ali."

Sohail also needed Nawazuddin Siddiqui to play Freaky Ali. "It's my good fortune that Nawazuddin Siddiqui came on board. I can't see this film working without him."

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, admits Sohail Khan, has become a part of Khan's family. "It's really very simple in our family. If you love us, we love you back. If you are hostile towards us, then that's what you get from the family. And we all know the people we are talking about."