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He looks like a hero but has fit himself well into negative characters ever since his first show Love Story hit the small screen, now Ajay Chaudhary has bagged a positive character in Anhoniyon Ka Andhera. He is paired opposite Anita Hassanandani. Ajay talks on being associated with big banners, his characters till date, his ultimate aim and what gives him sleepless nights.

Tell us something about your character.
In Anhoniyon Ka Andhera, I play Rohan Malik and I work for an advertising company. My wife Anahita, my mother and our maid stay together and we are an upper middle class family. We lead a normal life but a few incidents take place in our life and change it and that's where the horror element comes into the story.

Do we just get to see Anita in action or will you too have an equal part to play?
When you see the first three episodes you will see that something happens to Anita in which I try and protect her. So in the first three episodes you will just see me in action, how I save my wife after which she can see and sense these things. As my character is a non-believer my wife and I share a tensed relationship. Post this I start believing her and that is when we work as a team and solve everyone's problems.

You're already doing Dil Se Diya Vachan on Zee, so how are you going to manage two shows?
I was doing Behenein earlier but I left it mid way as I did not like a few things there after which
I took up Anurag Basu's Horror Nights on Star One, I did two stories there. I feel probably from there god must have thought 'let this guy do horror shows only' (laughs)! Then I did a film with Rupali Guha so she called me and said 'You are doing a character in my show and that is howDil Se Diya Vachan happened, in which I am playing a negative character and here I am playing a positive one.

Switching on and off from both the characters is a difficult job. But, I do not manage any of it, the production houses do it. They are very understanding and Vikram (Bhatt) sir too is very co-operative. At times when there are date problems he manages. Over there too the team is very co-operative and if I am shooting in the day here they have night shoots especially for me there.

Let's see what happens next. That character too is doing very well though it is negative, it's doing a lot better than what I had thought of it.

Has the audience started liking you in your negative shade?
I do not know why people like to watch me in negative characters because even in Love Story I had become negative in the end as I played a psycho killer.

Do you believe in ghosts and spirits?
When I listen to such stories I feel maybe such things are there though personally nothing of this sort has happened to me as yet. But I do believe in them somewhere down the line.

Have you ever been stressed out or carried your work home after shoot?
There have been scenes when you get stressed out and you're mentally tired and you cannot sleep. So even in Love Story there were a lot of such scenes that were mentally very challenging role. In Dil Se Diya Vachan too there are scenes when I am so tired after shooting them that I feel like going back home and sleep but I just can't sleep.

Now for the past three months ever since I am doing two shows I have just been sleeping for two to three hours.

In Andhera, the horror scenes do bother me some times.

Which is your favourite genre?
Earlier I loved romantic roles but now people have made me do everything from negative to horror (laughs). I have also done comedy in Kumkum. My character's name was Ustaad in it and he was a guy who was an imposter and he had changed 20 get-ups, later he fell in love withKumkum. It was a very different character. I did it for three months but in three months I had played 20 to 25 characters.

Are you planning to do any more films?
I have done Let's Dance then I did Aamras which was a Rupali Guha film. Even now I have two projects that will start soon.

Will you continue doing films and TV?
No, ultimately I want to do just films but it's not that I won't do TV. I like TV and I started from TV. Luckily I have always got good roles and an opportunity to work with the right people. I have got to learn a lot from TV and today how much ever I think and even with my friends in TV when they see me they are jealous. They feel why he always gets such good banners?

Do you plan to take up any reality shows?
I want to do reality shows but nobody gives them to me (laughs). I want to do some comedy reality show if an offer comes I will consider it.

Are you in a relationship?
Yes, I am but I wouldn't want to talk about it now. You'll have to wait for the right time.