INTERVIEW
You wait for good stories whether its OTT or movies, you go for it, and then you wait for the next one, so I don’t want to make any plan out of it, let it be organic, let the stories find me or I find the stories
back and work harder, than you get something that people recognize, but there is no outcome sometimes and it doesn’t translate to the kind of work you want. That went on for 10 years, but I think it’s a part of the journey. And some people get it soon and some get it later. But it hurts sometimes that it could have been earlier, but then it’s okay. Every day is a new day you move on. How do you plan to balance between movies and OTT, is there a preference? No, I don’t plan to balance anything as such. In fact, there’s no point on planning anything. You wait for good stories whether its OTT or movies, you go for it, and then you wait for the next one, so I don’t want to make any plan out of it, let it be organic, let the stories find me or I find the stories. I want to work on both and would love to have great stories on both of them. Who have been your acting role models? Many to be honest! You see as actors, you get inspired when you watch good performances. And in that, my favourites are Irrfan saab, Manoj bhai (Bajpai), Naseer Saab (Naseeruddin Shah), Om Puri Saab, Sanjeev Kumar Sahab…. And of course Dilip Saab (Dilip Kumar). It’s always great to watch these actors. There are these actors who generations across can watch and get inspired. Among the international actors, I really admire Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. I always enjoy watching them on screen so yes, many people who have inspired me. Tell us about your upcoming projects? After the pandemic we started shooting and I did Maharaja with YRF (Yash Raj Films) directed by Siddharth P Malhotra that will release soon, and there’s a web-series that I did with BBC, it’s a remake of the show called Guilt, so we are making that in Hindi and I just finished these two and I’m moving to the next one. So hopefully a couple more in the months ahead and the journey goes on. 46 FILMFARE MIDDLE EAST November 2021
44-46-FFME- NOV 2021-jaideep .indd 46
03/11/2021 9:18 PM