Click to play videoMumbai: While Aamir Khan is doing a Bharat Darshan under disguise to promote 3 Idiots, his co-stars in the film are doing their bit back home in Mumbai. On Thursday afternoon, CNN-IBN caught up with Sharman Joshi and got him talking about the film and how he bagged the role of an idiot.
Sharman Joshi was busy promoting the film on Thursday in which he, along with Aamir Khan and R Madhavan, plays an engineering student. The actor talked about staying at the IIM Bangalore students' hostel while shooting for the film to give it an authentic feel.
"We had a great time. We stayed in the hostels, ate the mess food and up on the stairs of the place there was a lounge where all the students would go and drink and party. Most of the times we joined them and yes it was an official bar," he reveals,
3 Idiots also marks the debut of Sharman Joshi as a singer after he lent his voice to the song Give Me Some Sunshine.
"Well it's not singing, but I am reciting a few lines in the song. I got a call from Vidhu (Vinod Chopra) and he said I have to sing, and I am a horrible singer and I was wondering why he would want me, so I was terrified," says he.
And Joshi also revealed how he bagged a role in the Rajkumar Hirani film.
"I first bumped into Rajkumar Hirani in the bathroom of PVR. He said he wanted to work with me and narrated the script of 3 Idiots. We were inside the bathroom for 20 minutes while my wife waited alone outside. The second time I bumped into him in the same bathroom, and I was like so if I need to find you, I should come to this bathroom, and that is when we fixed up a meeting. I was clear then that if we do meet, we should meet in a decent place like an office, not in the bathroom," he says.
Well this is probably the first case of a public toilet turning a lucky charm of sorts.
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