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Being Mir

Jaideep Ahlawat found comfort in theatre after he failed to clear the army entrance exam three times.

When writer-director Meghna Gulzar told Jaideep Ahlawat she'd cast him as the stern Intelligence Bureau training officer Khalid Mir, he asked her the same question posed to him in the film by his protege Sehmat (Alia Bhatt): "Do you think I will be able to do it?"

Then 35, he was set to portray a man at least a decade older than himself. But the

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