This yr, Gaurav Chopra has consciously opted for various tasks on huge display and OTT house to steer away from getting slotted as a TV actor. However, the actor admits that he’s nonetheless struggling to return out of the field.
After getting seen for his outing within the streaming house with net present Rana Naidu, he was most just lately seen in Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2. Now, his focus is to proceed including various tasks into his kitty to interrupt the stereotypical picture.
“The announcement of my next project will happen anytime soon. And this was the plan post the lockdown,” Chopra says.
But what was the plan? “The plan was to seem different, to change perception, and to sort of get out of the box that people had put me into. You Google my name and the first thing that comes up is — Gaurav Chopra, TV actor. And that’s where the problem lies. You will never see that happening to an actor from the west,” provides the 44-year-old.
Opening up about it additional, the actor shares, “This is the jaati-waad story which is in our vein. We want to know aap kahan se ho, and then people segregate into a category and put you in a box”.
“The biggest problem is that you might not have actually seen my work on TV, or don’t know what I bring to the table. But by giving me a label, you put me along with everybody else with a generalised opinion about how television actors have been. I might be a very different individual, but you are not allowing me that variation,” he says.
Here, Chopra reveals that he sensed this sample when he began getting “same roles for very good money”.
“But these were the kinds of roles that I’ve been playing for a long time, and I wanted to break free from that. It took a lot of effort and discipline to say yes to three projects such as Rana Naidu and Gadar 2. Shooting for both the projects was tough because the looks were different,” he says, including, “Those two years were painful, putting on weight and losing it”.
“It was not easy. The whole effort was to create this new perception of an actor trying to break and extend his boundaries while trying to do good cinema. Now, my upcoming projects will also reflect that,” he ends.
Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com
