Akshay Kumar is known to be a disciplined actor following a set schedule every day starting his day at 4 am. The actor has a shoot policy of working 8 hours a day, during that period he is dedicated and doesn’t move out of the set. However, for Sarfira the actor had to break his 8-hour schedule extending it for the climax scene in the Hindi adaptation of Soorarai Pottru. Sudha Kongara who also directed the Tamil original revealed an interesting anecdote. She appreciated the actor for his policy and was scared to request him to stretch his shoot time. 

In an interview with News 18, Sudha Kongara said, “Akshay sir has this policy, he’s told me from Day Zero that he will work 8 hours and in those 8 hours, he says, he is like an assistant director. He doesn’t move out of the sets. But after 8 hours, you just look around and he might not be there. This is what I was told and warned. However, this didn’t happen with us. We always worked with the said condition in front of us. But that particular day, it was going beyond 8 hours and we had the finish the scene because we were finishing the film.”

She continued, “My first AD went and requested him. He told Akshay, ‘Sir, another 10 minutes sir, another half hour sir, we know it is beyond 8 hours. (He was bargaining) Sir, so many days I have let you go in 5 hours and 6 hours.’ Akshay sir replied, ‘Yeah, that’s because I finished my work early, because I was fast.’ The AD continued to plead him, ‘Please give us half hour.’ Very sweetly, Akshay gave us the half hour.”

The filmmaker further recalled, “He was acting stern but knowing his sense of humour, (I knew he was joking). He said, ‘Okay, I will think about it, I’ll see. You are violating my rules.’ But the next day, we all turned up on sets and all we wanted to know was has Akshay sir left Panchgani. He left on the dot, he arrived on sets on the dot and he made this exception without a fuss. He shot the toughest scene of the film on that day and it was beautiful. That’s my fondest memory of him.”

Written by Sudha and Shalini Ushadevi, with dialogues by Pooja Tolani, and a G.V. Prakash Kumar musical, Sarfira is produced by Aruna Bhatia (Cape of Good Films), South superstars Suriya and Jyotika (2D Entertainment) and Vikram Malhotra (Abundantia Entertainment). Mark your calendars for July 12th as 'Sarfira' takes you on an exhilarating journey of ambition, determination, and the relentless pursuit of dreams.