Vishwajeet Pradhan Quotes:
When I got a call from Hansal Mehta, the CEO of White Feathers, asking me to come for one of their films, I was very happy. I thought they’d have an interesting role for me. But when I got to know they just wanted me to stand in for Sanjay Dutt for some scenes, I decided to give this offer the pass.
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I needed a break from the breakneck speed of daily soaps.
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I got plastic surgery done on my face because my skin burnt during the shooting of one of my films.
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I avoid oily food. I am a vegetarian and it has helped me a lot.
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Emptiness will always cripple me.
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I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.
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I have always seen Rajesh Khanna coming on the sets with his secretary only and no one from his family.
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I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.
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It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.
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Doing films and TV together becomes difficult to manage when you have too many things in your hand.
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For a man it’s not easy to play a woman onscreen. You have to wax your body. You dress up a lot to be able to do justice to the portrayal.
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Wearing the sari, adhering to the parda system and all those things are really taxing. After wearing a woman’s attire, I came to understand what they go through daily.
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After a certain point of time, life’s practicality hits you. So I got into theatre, did stage plays and worked along with Naseeruddin Shah and Nana Patekar, people who are committed to the craft part.
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Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.
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As an actor I want more and more challenges, I want to reinvent myself.
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My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.
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Any holiday my group of friends and I managed to get, we would catch the early morning train to Lucknow to watch films.
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There was a time when villains were stylized as very fashionable with gelled hair, girls in arms and cigar in mouth but now films have come closer to the reality. Realism has entered our industry.
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Television demands continuity and more work month after month. One has to also maintain quality as it reaches not just India but U.K., Canada, Pakistan, and Dubai as well. It is very powerful. And the risk of flopping like a film is also not there!
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I got ‘slotted’ and started getting offers similar to the role I had in ‘Maryada.’
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Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I’ve also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.
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It is an irony that the era of crafty villains such as Gabbar Singh or Mogambo has gone away.
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