Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has been gracing the silver screen for almost four decades now. The 65 year old actor has had ample opportunity to try a range of different roles in that time period.
According to Kapoor in an interview, “I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters. I am not stagnating in one kind of an image. I am an actor who is doing his job. I am not making a career for myself. What safe (roles) can character actors play? They don’t matter at all.”
The actor further added that there is greater on content once again in Indian cinema and that this is a great sign for both audiences and actors, “Those hackneyed plots are not going to be accepted. It is a healthy thing that actors of my age are getting work today. I am not a young actor. People want to see different kind of films, they are fed up of seeing same formula.”
“This is the era of actors now, non-actors are not going to survive. They maybe there for one or two films but if you are not competent enough you cannot survive,” he said.
He further elaborated that he would only sign up for a film that truly excited him, “I want the role to excite me and I must feel passionate about doing the film. I will not do a run of the mill kind of a film or role. I will not say yes to that. Also, I will not do a film for money.”
“I love my work. I am born and brought up into a family of cinema, family of actors. I only know how to act, I don’t know anything else. I have been working for 45 years and I have done over 150 films. I am thankful to God that I get paid very much for what I love very much.”
Kapoor also said he was still a “student of cinema” who aspires to always learn from his colleagues, whether senior or junior.
