My mother is very fond of cooking and whenever I am home she ensures that I eat the best food prepared by her, because of which I gain a lot of weight.
The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality that people religiously adhere to.
In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.
It is a big deal to play the antagonist in a Rohit Shetty film.
Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.
I used my television phase to save myself as an actor for the bigger screen.
Karthi is such a wonderful human being. He is always focused towards improvisations and keeps working on it.
I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.
I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.
I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.
I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
I'm not the type who will go and ask people for roles.
There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.
That's my only plan: to keep doing good roles and win appreciation.
I'm very much a family person.
As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I'm happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.
I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.
When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.
