Meet Aakhri Pasta!

Chunky Panday is a versatile actor; however, it’s his character ‘Aakhri Pasta’ from Housefull that no one can miss. Sharing details, Chunky says, “The secret behind Aakhri Pasta was that in Housefull 1, Sajid Khan was to do this role himself. Everyone told him, ‘Sajid you have to do this role’, and then he met me at this party and said to me, ‘Chunky I have got this role, people want me to do it in the film, I can’t direct and act, will you do it?’ I said of course. And that is how ‘Aakhri Pasta’ was born.”

Chunky also reveals how he got the inspiration for his character; the actor adds, “The name came from AkhreeRaasta (1986), Amitji’s (Amitabh Bachchan) film, and the character of Marconi from the film The Great Gambler that was played by Sujit Kumarji; so we took him as an inspiration, his clothes, that moustache, and created ‘Aakhri Pasta’. Somewhere, ‘Aakhri Pasta’ was Sajid Khan’s alter ego. What Sajid couldn’t do in real life, he would make ‘Aakhri Pasta’ do on screen,”