Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has evolved and improved with the Hindi film industry over the decades. Be it playing the cool and supporting dad to Raj in ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ or playing the revolutionary and the voice of the masses in ‘The Kashmir Files’, he has tried and nearly aced all genres of films he ventured into.
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But the veteran actor thinks that now he isn’t being cast by filmmakers like Karan Johar, Sajid Nadiadwala, or Aditya Chopra who once adored him.
“I am not a part of mainstream cinema in India today. I am not. I am not doing any Karan Johar film, I am not doing any Sajid Nadiadwala film, I am not doing any Aditya Chopra film because the offers have not come. I was a darling of all these people. I have done everybody’s films. But I am not blaming them for not casting me anymore,” Times Of India quoted him saying.
He adds that since these filmmakers aren’t casting him, he found a new path. “But because they were not casting me in their films, I found a path where I did a Tamil film called Connect, I did a Telugu film called Tiger Nageswara Rao. I have also done Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Uunchai’.”
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He added that he was definitely hurt by it but he didn’t use it as an excuse to stay idle.
“Otherwise I could’ve have sat down & said, ‘Arey yaar mere dost aur mere jo itne kareebi they ek zamaane mein, mujhe ab lete nahin hain filmon mein toh main ab kya karoon main toh barbaad ho gaya.’ Of course mujhe takleef hoti hai, dukh hota hai ki kyun nahin lete bhai main toh inki sab filmon mein kaam karta tha.”
(My friends and near and dear ones are not casting me in films anymore so what can I do? I am ruined. Of course it hurts me. I think why don’t they cast me? I had worked in all their films.)
“But, it’s not a complaint & neither am I holding it against them. I am just saying that sometimes when one door shuts, so many other windows & doors open. I am rediscovering myself as an actor.”
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Probably it’s a blessing in disguise. As he said, because he wasn’t cast by them, we were able to see so much more of him.