Arjun Rampal on de-glamming for the role in Daddy

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Arjun Rampal on de-glamming for the role in Daddy. Arjun Rampal and Ashim Ahluwalia share their thoughts about star-driven movies.  Read the full Gulf News article: http://gulfnews.com/life-style/celebrity/desi-news/bollywood/arjun-rampal-explores-mumbai-s-underworld-in-daddy-1.2085257  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00For an actor, I think the most amazing thing is when you get an opportunity like this.

00:09When you get opportunities, you're an actor, forget what I look like.

00:12What I look like, I mean, it's got nothing to do with me.

00:15I think what you kind of want as an actor is a part and a role which is going to be

00:20memorable, you know, a character which you can get lost into and escape from everything

00:25else and be just, that's your job, you know, and it's really an exciting job which allows

00:29you to do that, is to go and become this gangster who's a living gangster, he's a legend, he's

00:33got so many things about him and that responsibility to deliver that, I think is very, very crucial

00:43for that.

00:44If I think I look like this and went and played it, it would not have any impact.

00:48No, not at all, actually.

00:49I just met a guy who's not like that and honestly, I'll be really blunt about it.

00:54Actually, the funny thing is, when people figured that I was working with Arjun on this

00:58movie, you know, they were like, okay, you've sold out.

01:02You said all this about Bollywood and all that and actually, it's really funny because

01:07my greatest sort of, the most flattering thing I heard when I saw the trailer was like, man,

01:12this is something else.

01:13We've never seen anything like it.

01:14Good looks, alone, without presence, actually doesn't work so well.

01:18The presence is the part that's missing and I found he has a lot of that when he's just

01:22sitting in front of the camera without necessarily, he doesn't have to act, he can just play,

01:27get into that kind of mode and Gowli has that as well.

01:29He can be very quiet and have a lot of presence in the room and that's what I found similar

01:34between the two of them and I thought that's something that I really want to capitalize on.

01:37So, this is a film that I really wanted to break some of those stereotypes of what a

01:42performance is supposed to be, you know, and his performance is amazing because there's

01:47that presence and that heaviness.

01:48It was never strategic, it was timing, you know, it's a really funny thing because honestly,

01:52I remember doing interviews in 2012 and I was like, you know, Anupama Chopra and all

01:56these people say, you know, what if Katrina came and asked you, I want to do a movie with

01:59you, would you be excited?

02:00I was like, no, I'd be depressed because I don't want to make those movies.

02:04You can black it out, but I'm being honest and the fact is that's not what I want as

02:09a filmmaker.

02:10I don't want that as a filmmaker.

02:11Why is it about, always about, you know what I mean?

02:14So, I think but now nobody asks those questions anymore, right?

02:17Nobody even expects those films in the same manner anymore and actually the excitement

02:22for Daddy, I have to say, it's got to do with predominantly the fact that the old industry

02:27is collapsing.

02:28The old formulas are changing.

02:30People are really kind of burnt out by that stuff and that's why it's not worked.

02:33I mean, whether new things work, whether our film works, I don't know but there's an

02:37openness now that there's never has been.

02:39We have a black and white poster which is all over the city.

02:41We have a trailer that's pretty wild and does not look like a normal Bollywood movie that

02:45has like 9 million views.

02:47This is a sign of an audience that's evolving, I think.

02:50You know, that's my take on it.

02:52I think audiences have also got so much exposure to so much great content today, you know.

02:59No, it's not about get better content.

03:02Some stories work, some stories don't work.

03:04I think a story is engaging, story is made from your heart and it's out there.

03:09Whatever it is, the genre, it will work if it's got honesty in it.

03:13That's what nobody is, what 16 years or 17 years of being in this industry, what I've

03:18learnt is nobody is bigger than the film.

03:21Nobody.

03:22You know, not the director, not the actor, not the producer, nobody.

03:26Everybody is just, it's like one big puzzle.

03:28We are pieces of that puzzle.

03:30We have to put it together, you know.

03:32And then you see that picture and if you all have been honest about that, that honesty

03:38comes out and that's what people like and they get entertained with that.

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