It has been 12 years since your debut movie and you have gone on file to say that Singham once more felt like a brand new starting. What precisely did you imply by it?
You understand really folks have began calling it 2.0 so then it made me understand you understand when folks have a look at you and say it is your comeback or your 2.0 or a brand new begin, then it makes you introspect and give it some thought. I by no means thought of it like that whereas doing the movie. However you type of understand there may be an inherent love that folks had that they had been cheering for you from the sidelines. They needed the movie to succeed. They needed you to succeed and be appreciated and that it form of appears like a brand new section in your life as a result of there was a lull in my reference to the viewers. I used to be nonetheless doing my work however it simply wasn’t resonating with the viewers at that time of time. Particularly as a result of I began my profession with that type of love and overwhelming reactions to my movies. It sort of feels just like the connection that I had started with has returned. So I assume it is a new connection or it is a reconnect. It is also a brand new section in my life I assume.
Why do you’re feeling prefer it’s a brand new section? What has modified?
You understand I imply after 12 years you are not going to be pursuing the identical issues that you simply had been pursuing as a child. I believe it is an unforgiving career the place some instances dangers do not pan out and the implications are there for all to see. So I assume in that sense it is a new section for me the place I need to take extra dangers, I need to have extra enjoyable, I need to play completely different characters. And Hazard Lanka being appreciated the way in which it was, validates the truth that it is best to take probabilities. You may fail however when you succeed then there may be large love.
What had been the ideas earlier than saying sure to a personality like Hazard Lanka?
I imply the factor is it got here to me at a time the place maybe I wanted to interrupt the monotony and perhaps simply do one thing distinctive. So I knew the viewers enjoys this, however nonetheless to take a danger and play an out-and-out unhealthy man, as you name it, an antagonist or an unhinged unfavorable power. I simply felt that is the time. If I do not do it now I will by no means be capable to do it. Additionally, I all the time believed it is best to comply with your intuition and impulse and after I heard the function, it felt like even when I seem for half-hour persons are solely speaking about my character. So, I by some means knew that the character is distinguished and essential. And the way in which Rohit sir had imagined it, it gave me the boldness and pleasure to do it. So I believe I took an opportunity as a result of the director had this imaginative and prescient for me. He believed in me even when he may have chosen anyone else maybe. He selected me as a result of he had a sure imaginative and prescient and a sure thought course of about the way to current me. So, I went with Rohit Shetty’s conviction and typically you want one other particular person’s conviction. So I all the time needed to play an antagonist, I believe there is no higher movie now looking back than the one I selected to do. I simply went and adopted my coronary heart as a result of I needed to work with Rohit Shetty for a very long time. I needed to be a part of his world. I simply really feel Singham, as a world I’ve loved. So the viewer inside me was actually enthusiastic about this movie. I additionally know that individuals who are available in to look at the movie, maybe didn’t solely come to see me. And in the event that they got here to look at Suryavanshi, Simmba, Singham they usually left with a little bit of Hazard Lanka, I might have been joyful. They left with fairly a little bit of Hazard Lanka, so I am happier.
So the prep, after all, was to be very, very clear about the truth that I do not need to be a villain, I do not need to make a idiot out of the character. And Rohit sir was additionally very clear that he needed a sure calmness within the chaos that he is creating. He is trustworthy and justifies his beliefs. I performed Hazard Lanka as a hero. I did not play him as a sufferer of the circumstances. I performed him as a man who’s on the lookout for revenge.
For the primary time in a very long time, perhaps when the movie was releasing, I wasn’t actually serious about the implications of the movie. I used to be simply… I believe I hoped that in all this, like I mentioned, persons are going to return in and watch this movie. I hope they take pleasure in what I’ve achieved they usually recognize what I’ve achieved. That was the one thought in my thoughts, that I used to be wanting ahead to seeing the response. Additionally, you get a bit numb, you understand, while you do such an enormous movie. You simply turn into a bit numb to it as a result of there’s not a lot of selling that you are able to do.
You understand, the movie in itself is a huge. So that you’re type of numb to it.
Publish launch, there was plenty of buzz round your character. How does it really feel to be part of the second largest hit of 2024?
I am really actually eager to do an out and out comedy quickly hopefully. As a result of that is one thing that I take pleasure in doing however I do not assume I’ve achieved sufficient of.
Are you open to do one thing on OTT as nicely?
This yr, I’ve really not taken a vacation. So, I am actually wanting ahead to determining my New 12 months holidays. Which I’ve secured with my household. Hopefully, we’ll determine a spot to go to. We all the time conform to disagree. There are numerous choices. The time is working out. We’ll should discover a place to go, get flight tickets and lodge reserving. That is the enjoyable of with the ability to take pleasure in your success along with your family and friends. I am actually wanting ahead to the top of the yr holidays. Which I really feel is nicely deserved.
