I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

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Art Why Want

Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a cafe and drinking coffee is as important as going for a shoot.

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Tin Tan T

Circuit training is doing repeated exercises on machines without rest. It tones the sagging skin when one starts to lose weight fast.

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Art Without Wit

Dancing like a typical Hindi film hero was a bit strange at first but I enjoyed it.

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Typical T Strange

The movie Gul Makai' will showcase the earlier life of Malala and how she was forced and stopped from going to school. It's a proud story of a girl fighting for her own and other girl child rights to education in her village in Swat Valley. I am glad I was chosen to play this role in Gul Makai.'

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Life Education Age

For weight gain, one must do cardio in the evening and for weight loss, in the morning. So, while gaining weight, I did weight training in the mornings and light cardio in the evenings.

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Morning Car While

I have never accepted any random offers for the sake of being a regular face in the film industry.

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Us Try Ted

'The Raikar Case' will offer the viewers with a kind of such a real experience as it truly delivers more than what meets the eye.

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Experience Wit Will

I don't think I will ever be erased from people's memory as I like to believe the work I do leaves an impact on people.

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Work Will Think

I felt huge after I gained weight as I was never this big before. My thighs started to rub against each other and my arms brushed my sides while I walked. I started walking with my legs apart.

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Art Wit While

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

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Age Understand UN

I do not have AC, TV, microwave or a washing machine in my house.

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Wave Washing Wash

I have always believed that awards are like accessories to a car. They are very similar to the rear view mirror in a car, which gives you the confidence to drive. They sure mean a lot; however, they are not the be-all and end-all of life.

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War Life Car

Zero budget filmmaking is frustrating but also liberating.

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Zero Us Tin

It's not that I am not being offered work in Bollywood but I seldom like any script.

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Work Wood Woo

History is a point of view always.

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History Ways Way

People might like an actor, but they love a star.

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Love T Star

No regional cinema can compete with national cinema.

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Pet Wit T

I have been working in seven languages.

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Work Age Working

When you are acting in a film, you are only worried about your performance and how the film will shape up.

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Your You Worried

I must say that the role in Hey Ram' is one of my favorites. It brought me a lot of acclaim and appreciation.

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Us T Say

Whether I am going in the right direction or not is determined not just by awards but also by the kind of films I do and their success.

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I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

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Kannada films are my way of reconnecting with Karnataka, which is close to my heart.

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I play roles that frighten me as an actor.

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India has a cross section of audience whose cultural levels are varied. So where there are takers for Dabangg,' there are also audience for A Wednesday' and Peepli Live.'

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Given a chance, I would wish to act along side Aamir Khan again.

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Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

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Meaningful cinema which lets me explore my talent to the fullest and with different roles is more important to me than just doing more and more films.

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After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

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For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters in it.

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As far as Raikar Case' is concerned, I give the entire credit to the writer because of the way they have written this show. It is extremely intriguing.

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As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format is treated by writers, directors, and actors. I have been studying this format for four to five years.

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I had the Forrest Gump' DVD and started watching. While watching it, I had no intention of writing it. When I started watching it, I got some flashes that it can be adapted in Hindi. That's how it started.

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I am trying hard not to take on roles similar to what I have already done.

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If you have been accepted and appreciated in a particular role, the industry finds it convenient to slot you in that image. You can't blame them actually - a lot of money is involved.

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It is important for an actor not to get stuck with an image.

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I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

Atul Kulkarni

I love Hitchcock's films because even though you knew who did it right at the beginning, he still kept the audience engaged till the last frame.

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Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

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The success of Chandni Bar' at the box office was a huge boost at that time of my career.

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Ever since I had decided to study at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, I had wanted to take up acting as my profession.

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I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi, my mother tongue.

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I love working in multiple languages, and these days good films are being made across the country.

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It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

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Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

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There are many talented writers in Mollywood.

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I have shot extensively in Kerala for various films and always loved the experience.

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As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.

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As an actor, you always want to try something you haven't done before. For me, the uncomfortable zone is the one to enter.

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No genre is easy. For an actor, it's a serious business even when he's essaying a funny character. In fact, comedy is more difficult.

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