Urdu lessons for Darshan Kumar

In the upcoming movie Sarbjit, Darshan is playing a Pakistani lawyer and most of his dialogues required him to speak in Urdu.

The hardworking actor, who hails from a Jat family, had never spoken authentic Urdu but for the perfection of the role, the actor took lessons in Urdu to get the diction and accent right.

When contacted the actor, he said “I have been to Pakistan a couple of times for my theatre shows. While staying in Lahore, I had interacted with locals quite often, so I had a few images in my mind on how their body language and accent is. During that time, I discovered that a lot of them speak Urdu with a touch of Punjabi language and my friends, who were based there, helped me to learn the language. That’s how I gained my initial knowledge and then it was all about mugging the dialogues and doing continuous rehearsals.”