Meezaan assisted SLB on Gangubai Kathiawadi even after becoming an actor: "Was tying junior artists’ shoelaces, making them wear chappals"

Meezaan Jafri has established himself as an actor. The starkid, who made his debut with Malaal and also shared screen with Paresh Rawal and Shilpa Shetty for Hungama 2, had started his career as an assistant director for Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Padmavaat. He had also revealed how he played Ranveer Singh's body double too in scenes. Now, in a recent interview, he opened up about returning back as an assistant director on SLB sets. Only this time- it was for Gangubai Kathiawadi and Meezaan has become a popular face already.

In an interview with Filmfare, Meezaan revealed, “A lot of people on set were shocked that you know, because you really don’t see actors once they’ve started working, coming back on set, assisting for a day or two, holding the clap, running around pulling the junior artists together. You know junior artists on Sanjay sir’s set are 300 on an average. All of them coming and telling me ‘how are you doing this’, and I don’t know why we think of these things as degrading, like ‘oh, someone’s back to assist’ and things like that, but I think these kinds of things help in the future and help you evolve, they help you grow and they help you learn so much.”

He also added, “You know I was running on set, and tying junior artists’ shoelaces, making them wear chappals and running, doing whatever work that has to be done being on set. I love the process of filmmaking, so all these things don’t matter to me.”

Well, we are sure that Meezaan will be able to hone his craft and emerge as one of the most talented youngsters of this time.