Vikram Vedha: Pushkar-Gayatri explain why Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan starrer has more emotion than dark humour

While the original Tamil action thriller Vikram Vedha, starring R Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathy was laced with dark humour, the latest released Hindi version of the film, starring Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik Roshan seems to show more intense emotion. As both the films come from the same director duo, it is only natural to wonder why the treatment of two films is different.

In conversation with the media, Pushkar and Gayatri opened up on the same.

Pushkar said, "Our idea and interest to make the film in Hindi also came from the idea that since we have two completely new actors who are capable of taking the same material and interpreting the characters in a completely different way. So there will be a perceptual change in the way we are looking at the characters as well. When we were discussing with Saif and Hrithik how we will pitch these characters a natural intensity was coming our way of interpretation. Whereas in the Tamil version, we played the characters a little cooler I would say."

He went on to add, "Here a major shift that we wanted to do was if those same characters have more emotional heft, then how would the characters play out! That was the idea. So the harder emotions hit harder here. That led to the way the climax also played there. The dark humour part fitted well in the Tamil version and it wasn't the same here in the Hindi version of the film."

The core story originated from the folklore of Vikram Betal and the film deals with the different perspectives of the concepts of good and evil.

In the film, Saif plays the character of a police officer named Vikram, in search of Vedha, a gangster. However, things take a turn when Vedha surrenders himself.

Gayatri further explained, "I think also as directors, we believe in collaborating with the actors to the fullest. They should bring their life experiences, and their emotion and express everything through their performances. We wanted to get that, otherwise, it would be like people would only watch out voice through the film, not the voice of the actors. That is not fun. Since our actors were totally invested emotionally, and understood the mental makeup of the characters, somewhere the collaboration became interesting and what the audience is watching is the amalgamation of our voices.  

Vikram Vedha, also featuring Rohit Saraf, Radhika Apte, Sharib Hashmi, and Satyadeep Mishra, was released in theatres on September 30.