He aspires to play all the 150 characters that inspired him as a theatre actor.Ī graduate of National School of Drama (NSD), the boy from Budhana in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh struggled for several years to find his feat by taking up blink-and-miss roles as an extra in films such as Sarfarosh and Peepli.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters,” says Nawaz. “I have the liberty to pick and choose now. “If one line about the film excites me I try to take it forward,” he says. He insists on taking the decision by listening to a one-line description. “They want variation and thus want characters that look different and add a distinct taste to their films,” he adds.Īnurag Kashyap’s Gangs Of Wasseypur was the film catapulted Nawaz to offbeat gloryĪlthough he is offered more than a dozen films a week, he still doesn’t have the nerve to “reject a film”. The superstars, he says, want to diversify. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget,” says Nawaz pointing at the blurring hierarchical line. “I am ably balancing big and small films. “What’s wrong with that?” retorts Nawaz underlining that he picked the films on the basis of the scripts and directors, and not for the stars. In Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan, he will once again share screen with Salman Khan. He will soon be seen in Rahul Dholakia’s Raees starring Shah Rukh Khan. During his initial years, the actor openly abhorred Bollywood’s inclination for stars, thus his fans were surprised when he played a quirky villain in Salman Khan-starrer Kick last year. Such characters never had layers and appeared very plain,” he reasons. It is no longer about conventional heroes and typically loud villains. “The film was reflective of the modern era’s thought process. Just as Badlapur talked about the explicit blurring of the line between good and evil, the division between the hero and the villain is also being erased. “The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters,” says Nawaz. The success of the film exhibits changing taste of the audience that is now willing to accept innovative films revolving around offbeat themes. None of us expected the audience reaction to be so strong,” he says. “The idea looked good on paper but the challenge was its onscreen execution, which was his (Raghavan’s) maverick. Raghavan had given him a oneline narration: “an angel transforming into devil and vice versa”. He seems to suggest on the sly Badlapur is bringing him wider appreciation than Anurag Kashyap’s 2012 saga, Gangs Of Wasseypur, the film that turned his fate. “I had a similar reaction when I was narrated the script and the character,” he says, when we tell him how impressed his performance left the audience. So, we catch up with Nawaz after watching the film, after its release, just as he had wished.
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But when one watches his act as the amateur criminal undergoing a change of heart in the Sriram Raghavan film, one is only left blown apart. One could dismiss his statement to be in sync with the arrogance of the latest character Laik he plays in Badlapur. We will talk the next day),” said Nawazuddin, oozing confidence in the middle of an exhaustive promotional trail before the release of Badlapur. “Pehle film dekho na aap, phir baat karte hai agle din (Please watch the film first.
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While Bollywood actors leave no stone unturned to blow their trumpet and create an illusion about their character during prerelease brouhaha, Nawaz takes a different route.
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Clearly, the actor refuses to follow the rulebook of showbiz and shies away from publicity. Nawazuddin Siddiqui refused to give elaborate interviews before the release of Badlapur. 'I have the liberty to pick and choose now,' says Nawazuddin Siddiqui