What brought you to acting?
I completed my engineering course in 1973 where I topped my college before joining the National School of Drama and bagging the ‘Best Actor Award’ in 1976. I did theatre for four years till a point when Gandhi came my way. I was to play Gandhiji’s second secretary in the movie and my character was called Pyarelal. In the same movie I also dubbed for Ben Kingsley. I have worked in over 74 plays and a score of movies and television serials. As a director, I have serials and plays like Mohandas B.A.L.L.B, Wah Bhai Wah, Sahabji Biwiji Ghulamji and Drishtanth, Kanak Di Balli, Albert’s Bridge and Panchvan Savaar to my name.
Are you a method actor or do you go by your instincts?
In our country, people do not understand the term “method actor” and they don’t know much about it. In India, actors who wanted to find out more about the characters they were going to play were termed as method actors! This is a completely wrong way of looking at it. Every actor has a way of working. Those actors who speak only the lines given to them are surface performers who by a stroke of good luck have become successful. Actually, the term method actor comes from a book An Actor Prepares written by a Russian actor-director Stanis Lewesky, in which he writes about how he prepares for a part and that is what is called method acting. In our country people use this term very loosely.
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