Vidyut Jammwal has made a career out of taking leaps. He takes his career’s biggest one now by playing Dhalsim in his Hollywood debut , Kitao Sakurai’s martial arts comedy Street Fighter. A fan of the video game series it’s based on, Vidyut “unfortunately missed” out on watching a previous adaptation, Steven E de Souza’s 1994 movie headlined by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Having grown up on Van Damme’s action films, he hopes that his Street Fighter franchise turns out to be even bigger than that film, which amassed $99.4 million on a budget of $35 million.

“I hope Street Fighter, as a franchise, does really well. I hope the next time I meet people, they say this Street Fighter was incredible. I hope the whole universe likes the movie,” Vidyut tells SCREEN in an exclusive interview. The actor’s role of Dhalsim was essayed by veteran British-Indian actor Roshan Seth, but that was met with a lot of criticism for poking fun at Indian culture.…