Although I played a cop in 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' it was a comic role, so playing a serious cop with an important role in 'Udta Punjab' was a change.
I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.
If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.
Humanity is a comic role.
When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.
You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
Any role that is well-written, exciting and something that I am comfortable with interests me whether it's comic or tragic. It could be in a film, play or TV.
I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.
I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.
I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.
I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.
