00:00When you get that kind of love from people, it's always overwhelming.
00:09And for me, with Amaran, it was very personal because I've worked on Amaran for two years
00:16and it was a lot of hard work and too many risks that I had taken with this film, which
00:21paid off.
00:22So, I feel grateful, I feel nice, but it has given me a lot of hope to look forward to
00:28some amazing things in life and I just want to say I love you guys for giving me so much
00:34love for Amaran.
00:40Asif Wani came in in parts.
00:43When I said yes for the film, my director Mr. Rajkumar Periasamy, the first thing he
00:47told me is to start growing my hair.
00:50The look was important because he thought I was too cute looking to play a terrorist.
00:54So, he's like, Roman, change your hairstyle, let's start growing your hair and then we'll
00:59get in the mentality of it.
01:01So, once I started doing that, I could already feel a difference with that long hair coming
01:06in and all.
01:07Then we went to Mr. Atul Mungia for workshops.
01:10He helped me tap into the mentality of the character.
01:14In that workshop is where I kind of figured Asif Wani.
01:18But where I really found Asif Wani was on the sets because we were shooting live locations.
01:25We didn't shoot on a set.
01:26We were in Kashmir, the traffic would be stopped for us to do our thing and just staying in
01:32that environment, looking at those guns.
01:35And I had a beautiful director.
01:37He helped me through with all the takes.
01:40Every time he would just speak about it and he would give me references and we would talk
01:44about just the film.
01:46So being in that in that in the moment and doing this, all that is what really helped
01:51me find Asif and a terrorist I could never really, you know, match with because I don't
01:59think that way.
02:00My mentality is not like that.
02:03But the hard work that was put into it, I hope, I believe I could play that character
02:08so ferociously is because of the hard work that we put in.
02:11Of course, you know, Kamal Haasan sir has been such a big legend of our industry.
02:22And I remember the first time I saw him was in Pushpak.
02:27I was silent then.
02:29And then I saw Appu Raja.
02:31So as a child, I had huge respect for him as an actor.
02:35So when Amarit was given to me and I knew that Kamal Haasan sir is a producer, I was
02:40very happy.
02:41Then there was a time I was shooting and my director, it was the second or the third skit
02:47when my director came to me and he's like, Rohan, Kamal sir has really liked your work.
02:52So that boost itself to get that validation from somebody you looked up to, it helped
02:58me and I could only perform better after that, because my producer and then legend had appreciated
03:04my work.
03:11The kind of person I am, if I get into something, then there's no giving up.
03:17So the most challenging was, you know, to stay with this character for two years because
03:23the film got pushed.
03:25And when you have a particular look for a film, you cannot change it.
03:29So saying no to other work, that was very challenging, especially when you don't come
03:35from a very well off family, you have to take care of the money.
03:39So saying no to money that time was the biggest challenge, I think, I felt.
03:48I wouldn't say I rejected, I politely declined because I think that was the right thing to
03:52do.
03:53And totally, it was totally worth it because what Amaran has done for me is established
04:00me as an actor.
04:03So I think every single call that I took for Amaran has paid off and I'm really happy
04:09that I did it.
04:15Of course, a film like that, not just because it's my film, it's a beautiful film.
04:19It evokes so many emotions within you.
04:22And it is the story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, a hero in all sense, and his wife, Indu.
04:30So you have to make sure that everybody watches it.
04:34The issue that we faced initially was that we didn't get many theatres, multiplexes in
04:39North.
04:40So had that been the case, I'm sure it would have reached a larger audience, but it picked
04:45up very well with Netflix and it was on satellite yesterday.
04:51So because the story is so well done, it has reached its audience.
04:56I still to this day get messages that I just saw Amaran, I just saw Amaran and phenomenal
05:03film, phenomenal job.
05:04So a good story always reaches you, anyhow.
05:12Aasadi, see the thing between Amaran and Aasadi is, I got to play two different characters.
05:20From an Adnan who's a protector, he's a J&K police guy, to an Asif Wani who's a destroyer.
05:29You have lived the whole spectrum of life, you've played two main portions of life.
05:34So it was fun to do that.
05:37But then again, playing, doing something for your country, I'm very patriotic.
05:45So it was like I've done something for my country, that feeling itself and this thing
05:51was given to me.
05:53So I live with that feeling.
05:55And Aasadi is more about his family also, his love life.
05:59I could connect with that.
06:00So it helped me become a better human, because I could channelize those emotions.
06:11Of course, see, the amount of hard work that goes in a feature film is totally different.
06:16Short films have beautiful stories, but you also do not spend so much time on it.
06:21Of course, it has its audience.
06:24If a story is told in even a minute, it is more than enough.
06:27And you have to understand that when you make a feature, because now that I've done
06:31a feature film, it's a totally different work.
06:34So no, I don't feel like that.
06:41No, because as a J&K police officer who's serving his country, I can relate to it.
06:50But in Amaran, I was playing an antagonist who is anti-national.
06:54I did not relate to it.
06:55So playing that was very difficult for me.
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