'Intricate steps were never a problem'

He added, “The toughest challenge was to get the physicality of the character right. Saint Ramakrishna Paramhansa was not a muscled man like me, so I had to get into a different physical shape. That was not as tough as what I had to do after that.

Paramhansa was shorter so I had to slouch throughout the film. In one long sequence, I had to slouch for so long that I couldn’t straighten my back after that for days. I walked around hunchbacked. It was frightening because I thought I’d never lose the hunch. This was physically the most taxing scene that I had ever done.”