Tag : Punjabi

Mumbai: Recently, the song, ‘Pehli Mulaqat’ from the film was also released to the delight of the music lovers under Bollywood producer-actor Jackky Bhagnani’s music label Jjust Music. In a conversation with IANS, Parmish spoke about working on the film with his father, the challenges that came with shooting in a restricted environment and the dynamics of the Punjabi film and music industry. Talking about how the project landed on his plate, Parmish says, “My entire crew including my producers were planning on a movie which was completely different but due to the rising Covid cases at that time the restrictions increased and we were not able to make the movie that we planned. However, while we were working on that movie and it got pushed, the writer of ‘Main Te Bapu’ narrated the story to me, that was the moment where the entire team sat down and it finally materialised.” The film wasn’t a smooth sail for him though as the entire crew was facing Covid restrictions. “My biggest challenge in this film was exposing my father to the restrictions that we had during the film. As my father is around 65 years old and I was a bit sceptical of having him on the sets but my dad was super pumped and full of enthusiasm. However I think due to us having a small crew where everyone trusted each other, it helped us a lot to cheer ourselves up.” For him, working with his father in this film was a matter of natural performance as he was pretty much playing himself during the making of this film, “The best benefit that I could have had is that my actual father is playing my on-screen father in this film and I was pretty much playing myself. Although scenarios were different, the story is essentially about a son manipulating his father into doing somet ...