Tag: Jim Sarbh

  • Steamy Stuff: ‘Made In Heaven’ Star Jim Sarbh Drops Thirst Trap In New Post

    Jim Sarbh is seen in black Calvin Klein innerwear, exuding confidence and charm while lying shirtless on a bed. The visuals are a perfect blend of steamy and sexy, captivating the attention of fans and creating a buzz on social media.

  • Kirti Kulhari, Jim Sarbh to star in ‘Sach is Life’

    By Express News Service

    Actor Kirti Kulhari is set to go international with her latest feature Sach is Life. The slice-of-life film, based on the true events in the life of an Indian Muslim immigrant family based out of the US, has been written and directed by Harsh Mahadeshwar. It also stars Jim Sarbh.

    According to the makers, the film narrates the tale of a couple who has to provide for their three-year-old son diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Kirti Kulhari, who plays the role of the mother, Daisy Munshi, said she is thrilled to star in the film.

    “This is the first time that I am playing a real-life character. We met the whole family, especially Daisy ji whose character I am playing and her son, Sachin Munshi,” she said. “It’s a very challenging, tough, intense role and I know that the only way I can do this is by going all in,” she added.

    Sach is Life is gearing to go on floors next year around April. The film will be shot in Kashmir, New Delhi, New Orleans, New Jersey and New York. The film is produced by Romila Saraf Bhat, Rahul Bhat and Red Bison Productions located in Princeton, New Jersey. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

    Actor Kirti Kulhari is set to go international with her latest feature Sach is Life. The slice-of-life film, based on the true events in the life of an Indian Muslim immigrant family based out of the US, has been written and directed by Harsh Mahadeshwar. It also stars Jim Sarbh.

    According to the makers, the film narrates the tale of a couple who has to provide for their three-year-old son diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Kirti Kulhari, who plays the role of the mother, Daisy Munshi, said she is thrilled to star in the film.

    “This is the first time that I am playing a real-life character. We met the whole family, especially Daisy ji whose character I am playing and her son, Sachin Munshi,” she said. “It’s a very challenging, tough, intense role and I know that the only way I can do this is by going all in,” she added.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Sach is Life is gearing to go on floors next year around April. The film will be shot in Kashmir, New Delhi, New Orleans, New Jersey and New York. The film is produced by Romila Saraf Bhat, Rahul Bhat and Red Bison Productions located in Princeton, New Jersey. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

  • When acting is rocket science

    Express News Service

    How do actors go about playing historical figures? Do they sit in libraries reading biographies or watching videos and intricately observe the manner the real-life figures scratch their chins? How much of the actor lives in the character? Where do characters come from?

    “Inside,” says Jim Sarbh, who plays the charismatic physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha in both seasons of the historical-drama Rocket Boys. “Every actor throughout the history of time draws from himself. You are you, you can’t be anybody else.”

    In Jim’s case, this is true to a certain extent. There are tinges of his off-screen charm and suaveness in many of his characters from Padmaavat’s Malik Kafur to Made in Heaven’s Adil Khanna. Even recently in Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway, he wore impeccable dark suits and lifted an eyebrow before giving sharp retorts in court as a defence lawyer.

    Jim’s Homi Bhabha is sexy, witty and magnetic, but he won’t take any credit for it. “Mrinalini Sarabhai (physicist Vikram Sarabhai’s wife) in her memoir writes about the time she, her husband and Mr Bhabha were all invited to an awards function in a South American country,” he says. “Mr Bhabha was supposed to be awarded at the event. His category was announced and he was nowhere to be seen. He finally arrived towards the end, after having two glasses of champagne, with a Hollywood A-list actress on his arm. So, I don’t think I brought anything to the table. If anything, I probably made the character more serious.”

    Both Jim and Ishwak Singh, who plays physicist Vikram Sarabhai in the series, believe in the necessity of homework, although their styles are different. “The question is how do you play somebody who is smarter than you,” says Jim.

    “I think of situations like how does a person who thinks twice as fast as you do approach a problem, deliver bad news, banter with somebody, broker a compromise, or make situations light.” Ishwak seems to be more academic. “It was more about trying to get in Vikram Sarabhai’s head, understanding his influences. I researched what it was like to be an Amdavadi (resident of Ahmedabad) in those days. I read the literature which Vikram must have to understand his motivations,” he shares.

    The actors also drew from each other a lot and their on-set dynamics aided in elevating the scenes. “I have the habit of doing a scene in ten different ways. Ishwak used to come on set with a certain way of playing a character and it was fun to break that approach,” says Jim. Ishwak adds that over two seasons he has understood Jim’s way of handling a scene.

    “Previously also when I have worked with actors like Jaideep Ahlawat in Pataal Lok or Manoj Bajpayee in Aligarh, some parts of them have stayed with me. I kind of imbibe the craft of the co-actor.”

    ALSO READ | ‘Rocket Boys Season 2’ review: A love letter to India and its men of science 

    Playing rocket scientists can be tough with all the jargon and the technical terms being thrown around in casual conversation. Did they always understand what they were saying? “Oh, I know now what a Geiger-Muller counter means,” says Ishwak. “I read, made diagrams, even saw YouTube videos…”

    “I just attained surface-level knowledge to play the scene believably. I am an actor, not a physicist,” adds Jim. “Although, I knew what to point to when my character says Giga Counter, otherwise I would have appeared as a dimwit.”

    How do actors go about playing historical figures? Do they sit in libraries reading biographies or watching videos and intricately observe the manner the real-life figures scratch their chins? How much of the actor lives in the character? Where do characters come from?

    “Inside,” says Jim Sarbh, who plays the charismatic physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha in both seasons of the historical-drama Rocket Boys. “Every actor throughout the history of time draws from himself. You are you, you can’t be anybody else.”

    In Jim’s case, this is true to a certain extent. There are tinges of his off-screen charm and suaveness in many of his characters from Padmaavat’s Malik Kafur to Made in Heaven’s Adil Khanna. Even recently in Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway, he wore impeccable dark suits and lifted an eyebrow before giving sharp retorts in court as a defence lawyer.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Jim’s Homi Bhabha is sexy, witty and magnetic, but he won’t take any credit for it. “Mrinalini Sarabhai (physicist Vikram Sarabhai’s wife) in her memoir writes about the time she, her husband and Mr Bhabha were all invited to an awards function in a South American country,” he says. “Mr Bhabha was supposed to be awarded at the event. His category was announced and he was nowhere to be seen. He finally arrived towards the end, after having two glasses of champagne, with a Hollywood A-list actress on his arm. So, I don’t think I brought anything to the table. If anything, I probably made the character more serious.”

    Both Jim and Ishwak Singh, who plays physicist Vikram Sarabhai in the series, believe in the necessity of homework, although their styles are different. “The question is how do you play somebody who is smarter than you,” says Jim.

    “I think of situations like how does a person who thinks twice as fast as you do approach a problem, deliver bad news, banter with somebody, broker a compromise, or make situations light.” Ishwak seems to be more academic. “It was more about trying to get in Vikram Sarabhai’s head, understanding his influences. I researched what it was like to be an Amdavadi (resident of Ahmedabad) in those days. I read the literature which Vikram must have to understand his motivations,” he shares.

    The actors also drew from each other a lot and their on-set dynamics aided in elevating the scenes. “I have the habit of doing a scene in ten different ways. Ishwak used to come on set with a certain way of playing a character and it was fun to break that approach,” says Jim. Ishwak adds that over two seasons he has understood Jim’s way of handling a scene.

    “Previously also when I have worked with actors like Jaideep Ahlawat in Pataal Lok or Manoj Bajpayee in Aligarh, some parts of them have stayed with me. I kind of imbibe the craft of the co-actor.”

    ALSO READ | ‘Rocket Boys Season 2’ review: A love letter to India and its men of science 

    Playing rocket scientists can be tough with all the jargon and the technical terms being thrown around in casual conversation. Did they always understand what they were saying? “Oh, I know now what a Geiger-Muller counter means,” says Ishwak. “I read, made diagrams, even saw YouTube videos…”

    “I just attained surface-level knowledge to play the scene believably. I am an actor, not a physicist,” adds Jim. “Although, I knew what to point to when my character says Giga Counter, otherwise I would have appeared as a dimwit.”

  • Jim Sarbh: Science has certain grey areas and will continue to have them

    By Express News Service

    Actor Jim Sarbh is best known for portraying nuclear physicist Homi J. Bhabha in the SonyLIV series the Rocket Boys. As the series is gearing up for a second season, the actor shared some comments about science, which he acquired by essaying the character. 

    While talking about his character and his ideas about science,  Jim Sarbh said that “like all things on earth or beyond its realm, science has certain grey areas and will continue to have them, I think doctor Homi Bhabha puts it very well, specifically on the topic of nuclear physics. First, the electrification process is, of course, unspeakably good. 

    There’re no two ways about it. Atomic power has revolutionised the way the entire world uses energy.” The actor said. On further conversation, he added, “Now, if we’re talking specifically about the bomb and how technology can also lead to violence, I think it is a grey area and will continue to remain so, and I am not an expert to talk on it at length. But I like how Homi Bhabha puts a few things.

    For instance, there is a dialogue in season 2 wherein he says: “Ghanto tak lecture sunane padenge (you are forced to listen to lecture)  about peace and harmony from the six most heavily armed countries in the world.” Steering towards the geopolitics and power dynamics of the countries, who are at the helm of affairs when it comes to the monopoly of power, the actor said,  “You just have to always wonder about why certain countries put out certain messages. It is always to protect their interests because they want to retain the monopoly of power. The monopoly of power has been imbalanced since the imperial and colonial days, and we are still recovering from those things or nowhere near that.”

    “The whole notion of terrorism worldwide is so hilarious, it’s so related to brown-skinned people, but when you look at it, the biggest of the terrorists are the ones sitting in the European countries or the western countries, who are controlling power across the globe. They just have very good PR programmes,” he concluded. Rocket Boys 2, which also stars Ishwak Singh as India’s space programme pioneer Vikram Sarabhai. The series is set to drop on Sony LIV on March 16.

    Actor Jim Sarbh is best known for portraying nuclear physicist Homi J. Bhabha in the SonyLIV series the Rocket Boys. As the series is gearing up for a second season, the actor shared some comments about science, which he acquired by essaying the character. 

    While talking about his character and his ideas about science,  Jim Sarbh said that “like all things on earth or beyond its realm, science has certain grey areas and will continue to have them, I think doctor Homi Bhabha puts it very well, specifically on the topic of nuclear physics. First, the electrification process is, of course, unspeakably good. 

    There’re no two ways about it. Atomic power has revolutionised the way the entire world uses energy.” The actor said. On further conversation, he added, “Now, if we’re talking specifically about the bomb and how technology can also lead to violence, I think it is a grey area and will continue to remain so, and I am not an expert to talk on it at length. But I like how Homi Bhabha puts a few things.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    For instance, there is a dialogue in season 2 wherein he says: “Ghanto tak lecture sunane padenge (you are forced to listen to lecture)  about peace and harmony from the six most heavily armed countries in the world.” Steering towards the geopolitics and power dynamics of the countries, who are at the helm of affairs when it comes to the monopoly of power, the actor said,  “You just have to always wonder about why certain countries put out certain messages. It is always to protect their interests because they want to retain the monopoly of power. The monopoly of power has been imbalanced since the imperial and colonial days, and we are still recovering from those things or nowhere near that.”

    “The whole notion of terrorism worldwide is so hilarious, it’s so related to brown-skinned people, but when you look at it, the biggest of the terrorists are the ones sitting in the European countries or the western countries, who are controlling power across the globe. They just have very good PR programmes,” he concluded. Rocket Boys 2, which also stars Ishwak Singh as India’s space programme pioneer Vikram Sarabhai. The series is set to drop on Sony LIV on March 16.

  • Jim Sarbh: I always had an interest in voice acting

    By IANS

    MUMBAI: Making his debut in Bollywood ‘Neerja’ as an antagonist, Jim Sarbh is one of the actors, says he has always been keen on doing voice acting.

    While his recent work as a voice-over character Wiz for the Netflix series ‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’, in conversation with IANS, Jim shares why he took up the project.

    Jim told IANS: “I have always been interested in voice acting because I am a fan of animated films.”

    “I just love watching all of them; be it incredible Genie and Aladdin or overall the work of Robin Williams, I love them all. When Rahul (the director of the show) approached me for the role, we had a couple of reading sessions and eventually realised how we can play around with those lines quite chaotically! I thought it could be so much fun!”

    The show is directed by Rahul Nair and the story revolves around a young man in his early 20s, named Ray. He is quite confused about whether he wants to love or lust in life girls.

    The character of Wiz is nothing but an inner voice that he is constantly having conversations with and Jim played the voice in the show.

    Asked about who was his ‘Wiz’ when he was a teenager, Jim said: “I think myself because we all have an inner voice that we constantly are talking to, right? It is an extension of us, playing out in our heads. In our show, Wiz and Ray are inseparable and Wiz is the manifestation of Ray’s internal process.”

    In recent times, Jim has also received huge appreciation from the audience and critics alike for his portrayal of Homi J. Bhabha in the web series ‘Rocket Boys’ and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’.

    This was his second outing with Bhansali after the success of ‘Padmaavat’.

    The show ‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’, also featuring Vihaan Samath — is streaming on Netflix.

  • Young adult dramedy series ‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’ to debut on Netflix in March

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Streaming service Netflix on Thursday announced that its latest series, “Eternally Confused and Eager for Love”, will premiere on its platform on March 18.

    Created and directed by Rahul Nair, the show features an ensemble cast of actors Vihaan Samat, Rahul Bose, Suchitra Pillai, Jim Sarbh, Ankur Rathee and Dalai.

    The show is Netflix’s first joint series with Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment and Tiger Baby, the production banner from Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar.

    “Eternally Confused and Eager for Love” presents the story of Ray, an awkward young man who is navigating adulthood and the daunting world of romance in the 21st century.

    “He does this with the help of ‘Wiz’, a personification of Ray’s inner voice, who tells us what Ray cannot say out loud. In a quest to understand if he wants sex, love or a relationship, Ray goes through a series of work-life misadventures and indecisions, continually finding himself, ‘Eternally Confused And Eager For Love’,” the official logline read.

    “‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’ is a labour of love. Rahul Nair has been able to capture the reality and hilarity of what most of today’s young people deal with – it also has a lot of heart, and marks the beginning of our association with Netflix. We’re passionate about sharing our work with the service’s global audience,” Sidhwani said in a statement.

    Kagti said the show is quite relevant for the current generation. “‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’ is a fresh take on the daily struggles of Ray, a young adult, as he navigates the complexities of love, relationships and sex in a post modern world.

    “We are very excited to have collaborated with first-time director Rahul Nair along with Excel Entertainment and Netflix on a series which will definitely connect with the younger generation today,” she added.

    Monika Shergill, Vice President of Content at Netflix India, described “Eternally Confused and Eager for Love” as a “complex and hilarious exploration” of the dating lives of young adults.

    “Debutant writer and director Rahul Nair brings a distinctive voice to the series and has beautifully captured the day-to-day dilemmas of friendships, dating and relationships in these modern times. With this warm-hearted entertainer we mark the beginning of our association with the powerhouse storytellers, Tiger Baby and Excel Entertainment,” she said.

    The show is executive produced by Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akthar, Kagti, Kassim Jagmagia, Angad Dev Singh and Zoya Parvin.

    Kartik Shah serves as the creative producer.