Quick Take:Makrand [Vijay Saxena]

The carefree spirit in me has brought out the saint in Swades...
People find my unruly locks and moustache a bit outlandish, but I feel what's apparently exotic is not always foreign. Though I have never made a conscious attempt to look like a vagrant wanderer, somewhere this funky appearance gelled with the rocking fusion culture. Isn't it?

Acting on stage differs from 70 mm...
While emoting on stage, one has to keep in mind the spectator sitting in the last row. On the contrary, performance in cinema requires dialogue delivery in tune with the audience on the front seats.

Our forthcoming home production S2G2 is a satirical comedy...
Infused with black humour, S2G2 is in the final stage of scripting. At present, we are finalising the cast. Shekhar Suman has liked the script but is yet to say yes for it.

With the multiplex movie culture, celluloid is open to today's theatre actors...
When I made Daanav more than a decade ago, it hardly created a ripple at the box office. Had it been released now, the response would be different. Incidentally, experimental films like Missed Call, Mixed Doubles and Being Cyrus have garnered a fair deal of critical acclaim, if not the desired dividends.

A bulk of six to seven films is in the pipeline...
But right now, I can only talk about three in the line: Manoranjan, Risk and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. The first one is a Karan Choudhury venture, where I'm enacting a filmmaker's role. Next is Vishram Sawant's Risk that sees me portraying a conman from the underworld who looks after the administrative network of a mafia gang. Lastly, Sanjay Sharma's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron portrays me as a comic villain.