Sushant Singh Rajput Starts Prepping For Paani...Goes from 1940s to 2050
For Sushant Singh Rajput, it is time for leap of generations that could fracture any actor's performing abilities.
The actor, who with just three films, has created a space for himself in the industry, is all set to make a 110-year journey in the course of two films. He will next be seen in two period films -- Dibaakar Bannerjee's Detective Byomkeshand Shekhar Kapoor's Paani. While in the former Sushant plays a detective in Kolkata in the 1940s, in the latter he goes into the future, as a ghetto-boy from Mumbai in the year 2050.
The cultural and chronological leap is tremendous, and Sushant is revelling in every bit of the challenge. Says Sushant, "I'm ready to make a 110-year leap from my last film to the next. In Byomkesh, though I had to go back in time to the 1940s, I had solid reference points. I watched a lot of films from that era. Then, of course, Dibakar was there to guide me. With Paani there are no references. I've the freedom to interpret my character in any way I like. In the rehearsals and workshops, Shekhar Kapoor has allowed me complete freedom to do what I like with the character. Such supreme freedom is also a kind of captivity as you tend to go overboard. With Shekhar's help I am trying to make my character in Paani believable."
About his very unorthodox selection of roles (an aspiring cricketer in Kai Po Che, a horny wastrel in Shudh Desi Romance, a detective and a ghetto-Romeo in next films) Sushant says the irregular is the regular for him. "I don't think I'd be comfortable playing the typical lover-boy romancing pretty girls in designer clothes. I'd die if I've to play stereotypical characters. I may fail with some of my unconventional choices. But I'd rather die with spectacular failures than mediocre successes."
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