I'm bored of playing negative characters: Jim Sarbh

Actor discusses his desire to perform more complicated roles

Bollywood films often have the presence of a psychotic antagonist that helps to add more flavour to the storyline. While the famous names usually take the lead as the hero, many big guns such as Heath Ledger, Amrish Puri and Ashutosh Rana from Janwaar have outperformed their own selves. Similarly, Jim Sarbh who has often played negative characters, now wants his career to take a turn. According to The Indian Express, the actor is tired of essaying roles that do not care about other people.

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"When I played these roles, they were the only ones that were offered to me. However, now I have the liberty to be a lot more selective. I am a little bored of playing negative characters. I want to now look at meaty, complicated roles. I am not interested in one-sided characters,” Sarbh revealed.

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Speaking of his past experiences, the 30-year-old actor shared, "I am really tired of playing characters who don’t care about people. I now want to start portraying characters who care about people."

Sarbh added that playing Malik Kafur in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat earned him a lot of success. He also mentioned that working with the ace film-maker has helped him hone his acting skills. The Neerja actor added, "Sanjay has a very keen eye for detailing. It’s all about making a beautiful frame and filling that frame with equally detailed, subtle and nuanced acting. I learnt a lot about precision. It was like an accelerated course in the basics of film."

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Discussing one of his most talked about characters, Sarbh said that Kafur was brilliant. He continued that upon reading the script he had made his mind to essay the character. He felt Kafur was interesting and had a certain playfulness to himself.

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Talking about his future plans, Sarbh revealed that he has quite a few lined up. He told, "There is a web series called Made in Heaven that I am currently working on. I also worked on a film earlier this year with Michael Winterbottom that also starred Dev Patel and Radhika Apte. It's premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September."

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Sarbh has proven his mettle as an actor by portraying complicated characters in Bollywood films. Apart from Kafur, he played a terrorist in Neerja. He was last seen in Sanju as Zubin Mistry.

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