00:00 Have you ever been in a situation where you are not working and you are worried?
00:06 A lot.
00:07 Especially after Covid, the way the situation has changed.
00:11 Everything was fine with Vishwa G.
00:15 It has happened a lot before.
00:17 There was a time, after Sholayam Shabnam, I had no work for about two years.
00:26 Okay.
00:27 Because that film had become a hit.
00:29 That's why you didn't get work.
00:30 That's why people want to give me the role of an inspector.
00:33 Okay, you made a type cast.
00:35 Yes.
00:36 And during the shooting itself, people told me, especially Mahavishal, who has passed away now.
00:44 He told me that this is my 28th film as an inspector.
00:48 No one gives me another character.
00:51 And then he told me that Jagdish Raj has only played the role of an inspector all his life.
01:00 So I got scared.
01:02 I got scared that if this situation is going to happen, I have not come to Bombay for this work.
01:08 I have a different respect, a different thought.
01:13 A good actor who works like this, like Shri Ram Lagu or Dilip sir, should be ideal for us.
01:20 So I said, if this happens, then this is wrong.
01:23 So I decided there.
01:25 I decided there that after the release of this film, I will not do such a role.
01:32 And when the film was released, it became a hit, people started remembering me for the role of an inspector.
01:37 G.P. Sippy, Rajan Kothari, these are all big names.
01:42 So I started refusing them.
01:45 So they thought that this is very arrogant.
01:50 Now this is also new.
01:53 So this rumor spread about me that this is a very arrogant actor who has played this role.
02:04 So people were calling me first, then people stopped calling me.
02:09 So I was a little confused at first, I kept thinking that now it will come, now it will come.
02:19 I saw it for a month and a half, I said this is wrong.
02:23 So then I started calling people.
02:26 So people started answering on the phone.
02:29 Now I am not doing the role of an inspector.
02:32 If there is some other role, I will tell you.
02:34 Now we have the role of an inspector.
02:36 Or the upcoming film of ours, for Inspector G.P. Rode.
02:40 Then I went to meet people, so they also started reacting like this.
02:45 In this circle, I did not get any work for two years.
02:49 Now you think, how will you spend two years with your family in Bombay?
02:55 This period of struggle is very…
02:58 So which film did you get, which you remembered, which gave you a new role?
03:03 After that I accepted a serial.
03:07 That too Bharat Rangachari, you may know Bharat Rangachari.
03:12 Who made the film Chattan, Vakth Hum Aara Hai.
03:16 He was a very good, intelligent director of the film.
03:19 He was from FTII.
03:21 So he kept meeting me on the phone.
03:24 So he called me once that I am doing a serial.
03:29 Would you like to do it?
03:32 So I got confused because I had decided that I don't want to do television.
03:37 Because my focus was to work in films and establish as a villain in films.
03:46 So I got a little confused.
03:49 Then I said, okay, I will call you in the evening.
03:53 So whenever there is confusion, I will definitely discuss it with my wife.
03:57 I told my wife about it. In this matter, I have received a lot of support from my wife.
04:02 In all kinds of problems, we have received a lot of support.
04:07 So she is my strength.
04:10 So I discussed with her.
04:13 I said, I have two feelings in my mind.
04:15 One is that if I do television, then it shouldn't happen that the film makers don't entertain you.
04:25 Which kept happening.
04:27 The other is that if I get this character,
04:32 He said that it is the main character.
04:34 So I said, if I get the main character,
04:37 then this character will be enough to establish that I can do other work besides being an inspector.
04:46 So these two feelings are coming.
04:49 So I have to decide.
04:51 Is this the same serial in which you played the role of your father?
04:55 Yes, I played the role of a businessman.
04:58 It was a serial called Parivartan.
05:00 It was of UTV.
05:02 UTV was a television producer.
05:06 All the roles you have played in films,
05:09 have you ever regretted or missed any role?
05:13 Or is there a dream role that you want to play?
05:17 If I get this role offer, I will do it first.
05:20 My thinking is very different.
05:22 I believe that the work I have done, the roles I have played, the films I have done,
05:30 the kind of directors I have worked with, the producers I have worked with,
05:35 people still remember my characters,
05:40 they tell me in dialogue what I have done.
05:44 So there is no definition of best.
05:49 If you do this, it becomes the best.
05:53 There is no ultimate.
05:55 Whatever you do, it is less than the ultimate.
06:00 So whatever work I have done, whatever work I have to do,
06:08 I do it with 100% effort.
06:13 Even after so much experience, I don't leave it.
06:21 Whatever work I do, I do it first.
06:24 First I go to the look, then I go to the characterization,
06:30 then I prepare it accordingly.
06:33 The films you have seen,
06:36 see Meghna Gunjarwali, it is a small role.
06:41 But you will feel that this is Sardar Patel's character.
06:47 Have you ever felt that a role is being played by another villain,
06:52 and you were offered that role and you rejected it,
06:56 and when the other person did it, it will be revealed.
06:59 Have you ever rejected a film that you regretted later?
07:04 No, no, there was no rejection.
07:07 There were some films that I did not do for some reasons,
07:11 and others did, but that is not the case.
07:14 I have always been making films like Amrish Puri made his name,
07:21 Mukam Bho Khus Hua, etc.
07:24 I did not get that position while working as a villain.
07:29 But I am satisfied that the work I have done,
07:33 people have accepted me in this way,
07:38 and I have been accepted as a different actor than others.
07:45 As they say, and I feel it too.
07:48 So this is enough for me.
07:51 And I believe that as long as I am in a position to work,
07:55 people are considering me for this kind of work.
07:59 The web series that I am doing now,
08:02 these days it is the OTT era,
08:05 so this is another opening for us.
08:09 Complicated characters are coming in front of us.
08:13 In some, I am doing a father,
08:16 a slightly crooked father.
08:21 If I talk about it,
08:26 there is a film coming up,
08:29 Sidharth Roy Kapoor's,
08:31 Where is that girl? Tapsi Pannu, etc.
08:34 In that I am Masala King,
08:37 the top industrialist.
08:39 I am very positive, everything came out well.
08:42 I have made the character of an industrialist in the same way.
08:47 Then there is a film, Gandhi Talks,
08:52 the name of the film is Gandhi Talks.
08:54 It is a silent film.
08:56 In this era?
08:58 In this era it is a silent film,
09:00 it is a two-hour movie,
09:02 all the South Indian stars are in it,
09:04 Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy.
09:06 This film is completely silent,
09:08 and it is a two-hour movie.
09:10 There is this variation.
09:12 In a web series, I am a sand mafia.
09:17 These are all upcoming projects.
09:19 These are all upcoming projects.
09:21 I am a Bahubali on the backdrop of Bihari.
09:25 Such characters,
09:28 and that Bahubali is also like that,
09:30 he has a hobby of wearing dresses.
09:33 He has a hobby of looking different every day.
09:36 Sometimes he puts on a hat on his kurta-pajama,
09:39 sometimes he wears a suit,
09:41 sometimes he wears the entire attire while riding a horse.
09:47 He is like this.
09:49 It is a wonderful, wonderful film.
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