Casting Abhishek and his illustrious Bachchan father as son and father was seen as too predictable. In a film that marks the return of Telugu director Puri Jagannath to Bollywood, Sonu Sood, and not Abhishek, has been cast as Big B’s son.

It was felt by everyone that Sood bears an uncanny resemblance to the young Big B from the early 1970s.

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First it was Ranbir Kapoor who had his torso/abs contoured and hand-painted during Saawariya, by his ever-helpful co-star Salman Khan.

Now it is Sonu Sood who got the same personal attention from Salman. While shooting the tricky bare-bodied climactic combat scene in Wai for Dabangg, Salman personally supervised his screen-adversary Sonu Sood’s torso tanning.

Says Sonu, “Everyone knows when two guys do an action scene, especially if they’re bare-chested, they work out harder before the sequence to make sure each one’s body is in the best shape.”

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