Mumbai: Actor-casting director Abhishek Banerjee says after starring in back-to-back comedy movies, he was petrified of getting typecast however his position of the fearsome killer Hathoda Tyagi within the collection “Paatal Lok” helped him escape of that image.
Abhishek Banerjee, who turned 36 on Wednesday, has emerged as one of the profitable faces on OTT platforms with motion pictures resembling “Unpaused” and “Ajeeb Daastaans” submit the vital and business success of the Amazon Prime Video neo-noir present.
The actor shot to fame with light-hearted motion pictures like “Stree”, “Bala” and “Dream Girl” that cemented his place as a comedy star however Banerjee had hoped that individuals may also pay attention to his darkish position within the Marathi movie “Ajji”.
And now his want appears to have come true.
“I was getting a bit scared of typecasting and felt why are people only offering me comedy? Why are they not able to see beyond my comedy? And that too, when I had done ‘Ajji’,” Banerjee informed PTI in an interview.
The actor stated he knew that not many individuals had watched “Ajji” however anticipated filmmakers to pay attention to his efficiency.
“I was wondering as to how I am getting the same kind of roles only to play and how do I break this. Thankfully, ‘Paatal Lok’ broke it for me. People started realising that I am not only good at comedy and that I can pull off different kinds of characters,” Banerjee stated, including that a director’s belief in an actor can assist change perceptions.
“It is also necessary to take risks,” he famous.
“After a time, you will get bored of doing the same thing, the audience and the maker too will get bored. So why not try and apply different rules with different characters?”
Banerjee made his begin on the planet of leisure as a casting director in 2015 and one of many guidelines that he abides by is to not repeat his actors in related roles. He runs the casting firm Casting Bay with Anmol Ahuja.
The actor, nonetheless, is fast to make clear that he’ll proceed to stability his slate with every kind of roles. He is, nonetheless, extra attentive in the direction of what he’s being provided to him now.
“I am paying more attention to the characters and I understand that there are some characters that are going to be easy, and some are not going to be easy. I am trying to strike a balance. I am not saying ‘I am not taking up easy characters’ because that’s my bread and butter. But I will also experiment with roles.”
With his profession taking off with the 2018 sleeper hit “Stree”, the place he performed Janna, a buddy to Rajkummar Rao’s character Vicky, Banerjee stated 2020 was presupposed to be his large yr however with the coronavirus pandemic affecting each stroll of life, a few of his releases had been postponed.
But issues did change in a single day for Banerjee when the trailer of “Paatal Lok? dropped on his birthday final yr on May 5.
It made him consider within the common legislation that “all good things take time”, he stated. With 2021 bringing a extra extreme second wave of infections within the nation, Banerjee, who has a slew of tasks, together with the Varun Dhawan-starrer “Bhediya”, “Rashmi Rocket” with Taapsee Pannu and Karan Johar’s “Dostana 2”, stated he’s nonetheless hoping for the perfect.
As the one baby in his household, the actor stated his birthdays was once a day of celebration however with the surge in COVID-19 circumstances, it will likely be spent in serving to as many individuals as doable.
“Last yr was very tough as a result of when the lockdown was introduced, it was new for all of us. We had not seen something like this. It was fairly miserable and grim.
“Now it seems, this is how it is. And when everything is falling apart around you, you don’t know how to celebrate your birthday,” he added.Â
Â
