Satya Bhabha works hard for Deepa Mehta's film

It was a battle between the 'nose' and the 'knee' on the sets of Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children in Sri Lanka.
Lead actor Satya Bhabha who plays the grown up Saleem Sinai and Tamil superstar Siddharth Narayan, who is cast as the abandoned child of Saleem's foster parents have been nicknamed the nose and the knee based on their characters’ disproportionate body parts.And though newcomer Satya has been trying hard to give his best, the Rang De Basanti actor appeared more confident, reveals a source from the sets.
Apparently during the confrontation scenes in which Siddharth and Satya come together, director Deepa Mehta frequently had to tell the Tamil-Telugu actor to "slow down" and let his co-star catch up.A member of the team on condition of anonymity said, "Among the male members of the cast, and that includes brilliant performers like Anupam Kher, Ronit Roy, Vinay Pathak and Rahul Bose, Siddharth clearly stands out. That became a problem for Satya, a relative newcomer to cinema, since he had many confrontation scenes with Siddharth. Deepa had to ask Siddharth to tone down his performance to let Satya get comfortable with the scenes."
So did the enmity between Saleem and Shiva in Salman Rushdie's famous novel spill over to Satya and Siddharth's real lives? "Not really. There was too much difference in their performing abilities. Where is the question of rivalry?" quipped the source.When asked about Siddharth, Deepa Mehta laughed, "I love all my actors. But yes, he is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant."