‘SRK treats me like one of the family’, says Prashant Valde!
#PrashantValde, though not known to general public, is known in the inner circles of Bollywood. He is #ShahrukhKhan’s body double. Whenever #SRK signs a film, most often, next call goes to Prashant from his team to be ready. ‘I owe everything to Shahrukh sir. Whatever I have achieved in the film industry in because of him. I have been Body Double of Shahrukh sir for the last 15 years and he treats me like one of the family. Whenever we meet he enquires about my family too’ says Prashant who has done about 15-20 films and 400 odd Ads as body double of SRK. Om Shanti Om, Don, Chennai Express, Deer Zindagi, Raees, Fan are a few names where Prashant has played body double of SRK.
Sometimes he gets accused of ‘Khudko Shahrukh samjhata hai’ but SRK’s team is always protective towards him and reprimands whoever throws these kind of accusations. Prashant gets his own Vanity and is given ample time to prepare. Prashant takes pride in a thing that he is a self made guy and he has honed his skills on the film sets. Everybody remembers Shahrukh’s double role in ‘Fan’ where Prashant played the antagonist’s part. He shot for about 60 days for the film and Shahrukh himself had entrusted this responsibility on him.
In film industry body double is different from duplicates and look-alikes. Prashant Valde primarily plays body double for SRK. His work starts before SRK arrives on the set. Most of the time the big stars are busy and have paucity of time and they can not allot time for marking the scene, camera angles, long shots, back shots, lighting etc. All these technicalities are taken care of by body double so that the superstar’s time is not wasted on frugal things. Body double, obviously, has to have the similar body structure of the star. The best part about prashant is that he can do stunts as duplicate, he can dance well and as he looks like SRK, he’s SRK’s duplicate as well as body double. So the producer hires him for these three-in-one package which is beneficial to both. Most of the shots are shot with body double as reference shots for the superstars which saves time and money for the producer.
Prashant Valde hails from a very educated family. His father is a medico, his brother is an engineer. Also Prashant has a degree in engineering in telecommunications. Obviously he has thought out his future plan too as he is aware that most of the duplicates go into oblivion the moment particular star loses his popularity. Prashant has a flair for writing too and has written a film script which is made into a film. It’s called ‘Prematur’ which is a love-horror-suspense-thriller
Produced under the banner of Anugrah Entertainment ‘Prematur’ is co-produced by Prashant Valde and co-produced by Shantanu Ghosh, Satya and Praveen Valde. It’s ready for release and will hit the theatres, wherever they are open, on 7th May 2021. It’ll also release internationally o
Prashant Valde has dedicated ‘Prematur’ to his mentor Shahrukh Khan.