If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.
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.
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really.
I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing one type of role, but I really don't think that my role in 'Weeds' did at all.
I hate being typecast and I don't want to do things that are boring for me because it would be boring for the viewers as well.
There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the digital medium coming to the fore, the actors are finding equal status with the stars.
I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.
I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.
