Ali Fazal Reveals he Learnt Dirt Biking for ‘Kandahar’

In order to perform his own stunts, actor Ali Fazal, who plays Kahil in “Kandahar,” learned dirt biking.

In order to play Kahil in the movie Kandahar, actor Ali Fazal had to spend time during the filming process learning a new skill set.

Ali Fazal said, “So basically dirt biking has clearly become a very loved passion in my life. Also surprisingly dissipating me from regular biking on the busy roads of our cities. But you know you’ll never be as good as you wanna be because when you’re working with such an amazing stunt team on a film like Kandahar, where everything is totally measured and state-of-the-art, even though the bike was a very simple bike, deliberately chose a very non-pricey bike like a KTM.”

He clarified the selection of this bike in specific.

“This was because we actually had to do these stunts. I had to do these stunts in the desert. And we couldn’t fake a lot of this stuff. So I learned about dirt biking. I landed up 25 days before the shoot and started learning these tricks. Of course, first learning how to just ride plainly on the sand and then, doing different kinds of skids and the breaks, different kinds of turns.”

Ali shared: “And ultimately, no matter what stunts you pull off, you have to make the character come alive. There’s body language and everything. So me and my stunt double, we had to work together all the time because there were some shots like riding on top of a very steep Cliff which has only rocks, those things I never did.”

Ali stars in his first-ever high-octane action movie in this military thriller. The actor spent a lot of time filming in Saudi Arabia’s Al Ula region.

Top international performers like Gerard Butler, Travis Fimmel, and Navid Negahban star in “Kandahar,” which was just released in North America and will soon be published in India. One of the film’s key antagonists, Kahil, is portrayed by Ali.