He is the boy wonder from the small town of Roorkee, Uttrakand who bagged the lead role in the Children’s Film Society India film Gattu by being the best out of 300 and more kids. For Mohammad Samad (Gattu), director Rajan Khosa changed the story to fit his personality. And now filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has got charmed by the little one.
The 11-years-old bagged a role in Anurag Kashyap Production’s next, Minto, directed by Slok who was Anurag’s assistant. Anurag saw the promo of the movie Gattu and immediately wanted to meet the kid. “He just wanted Samad for the role of this naughty kid from Ahmedabad. Samad was specially called to Mumbai from Roorkee to give a screen test to Anurag. The filmmaker took care of the stay and tickets of the kid and his father,” says a source close to the film.
