Don’t want a standard father’s role: Rishi Kapoor

Actor believes that he has more potential than just being a father on screen.

MUMBAI: With limited roles available in Bollywood films for senior actors, the popular chocolate hero of the 1980s, Rishi Kapoor, says that he is “a competent actor” and would like to try out character roles instead of being typecast as a typical onscreen dad.

Kapoor, who wowed audiences with his role as the ruthless underworld lord Rauf Lala in the recent remake of Agneepath, said, “I am not trying to be modest, but I have tried to experiment with my look in different roles. I don’t want to do a standard father’s role. Instead, I would like to do character roles and bring something new to the table.”

The actor, who starred in Bollywood hits such as Bobby, Prem Rog and Khel Khel Mein in his earlier days, was seen playing a father in films like Fanaa and Namastey London.

“If I am in a film, the makers should take complete advantage of the fact that I can perform. I feel I am a competent actor and I would like to perform,” added the actor, who proved his competence as an actor by playing a middle-class school teacher Santosh Duggal in the National Award winning film, Do Dooni Chaar.

Kapoor was also seen playing a cop in director Atul Sabharwal’s film Aurangzeb which released this Friday.

Kapoor says he is playing “a Haryanvi cop in the film. I have cut my hair short to relate more to the character.”

He is also part of his son Ranbir Kappor’s upcoming project Besharam, which is directed by Abhinav Kashyap and also stars his wife Neetu Singh.

Talking about the film, Kapoor said, “It’s been good, but I still feel they need to put more of us, we have just done one sequence and by the time we realised we are working together, it was over. Although there wasn’t a single moment of discomfort when we were working together, it was quite enjoyable. It’s been great fun,” said the 60-year-old.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 20^th, 2013.                    

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