He absolutely internalised all of the character's traits, including the falter so that there's annihilation caricatural about the character," Gupte, who plays a villain in the blur by Vishal Bharadwaj, told IANS.
"He backward on the set throughout, kept arresting the ambience, the bathed ambience in which Guddu and Charlie (the added character) had to action in their own abstracted ways. I apperceive Pankaj works the aforementioned way. And I absolutely accept Shahid has affiliated Pankaj's adeptness and appearance of assuming afterwards appearing to act. It is absolutely in his DNA," he added.
Gupte, who is bigger accepted for scripting Aamir Khan's authoritative admission "Taare Zameen Par", says his adolescent co-star afraid him with his accomplished performance.
"When you're adverse the camera with a co-star you become compatriots in the canvas of characterization. On abounding occasions I was abashed by Shahid's affection for excellence. I saw the aforementioned superior in Aamir.
"It's an adrenaline-charged performance. On abounding occasions as we performed calm I'd overlook how adolescent Shahid is. This akin of affection in a achievement comes to an amateur afterwards decades, not afterwards three-four years of acting," he said.
Gupte is so afflicted with Shahid, who fabricated his admission in 2003 with "Ishq Vishk", that he now intends to casting him in his authoritative venture.
He ante Shahid's acting in "Kaminey" as a criterion for actors essaying bifold roles.
"I don't anticipate a bifold role has been done like this before. Shahid has entered Guddu and Charlie's world. Naseer (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pankaj apart, I apperceive actual few actors who could've done what he has. Shahid should be up for two best amateur nominations in 'Kaminey'," Gupte said.
Though this is Shahid's aboriginal blur with Bharadwaj, audiences still bethink his ancestor Pankaj for his arch achievement in the accomplished director's "Maqbool". He aswell wowed audiences in his "The Blue Umbrella" and "Blood Brothers", a short-film on AIDS.
