Cinesprint - May 2015

dancing in Mr . X, in fact, it was a
guy dealing with trauma. So, I was
acting out what I was feeling at that
point. If you remember, you had
come on the first day of shooting
to see me at Filmalaya Studio. That
first scene was of a guy who almost
dies. He is a righteous ATS officer,
who is brutally injured by this group
of people to the point of death. He
almost dies, but then he takes this
particular medicine that gives him a
new lease of life, but it’s not the life
he imagines, his cells stop reflecting
life and he is almost invisible. It’s a
man who is defeated and is the
story of his resurrection.
In a sense, your personal story is
also one of resurrection at this
point in your career?
You could say that. I believe that
in everyone’s life, where success
or trauma can change you, it’s
important that you deal with both
in a way that is not self-destructive.
There was this rise I kind of had
two years back when my films were
successful, and then there was this
lull where four of my back-to-back
films did not work at the box office.
There is a side of the industry that is
always jumping at writing an actor’s
obituary , writing you off, which
is nothing new to me. I never ever
confuse what these people think
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