Rahul Dev remembers Gadhvi for being welcoming and helpful even before they collaborated on Kidnap. The actor, who was looking to return to work after a break, met the director at his home. “He couldn’t get me any work at that time as he was going through a process of introspection. He had been working on a film but that didn’t take off as planned. Yet, he gave me two hours of his time, speaks a lot of his helpful, kind and patient nature,” reminisces the actor who also worked with the director on his last venture, Operation Parindey.

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The making of the 2020 film that released on Zee 5 was testing times just before the pandemic. Dev recalls, “We had gone to Punjab to shoot it. Seeing him direct, I used to wonder why he wasn’t doing work more prolifically. He was too good a director to have done only that number of films. After all, he had made films like Dhoom and Dhoom 2.”

The actor reveals that the director connected with him for their third project together. “He was dabbling with another interesting subject. Unfortunately, it didn’t see the light of day as he couldn’t start it.”

Dev shares that the most incredible aspect about Gadhvi as a director was his sense of shot-taking. “We’ve seen both, Dhoom and Dhoom 2. I worked with him on a big budget film like Kidnap and a small-budgeted project like Operation Parindey, in which the crane shot is enough to tell you how he knew what to make and how to mount it. He was tech-savvy to make small films look like they were made on a big scale.”

The actor shared that the director was a very nice and kind guy. “Often times, people say good things about those after they are no longer around us. Gadhvi was one of those genuinely nice guys everyone spoke good about all the time.”