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ARUNIMA SRIVASTAVA
[ Friday, April 28, 2006 07:54:53 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
Hiten Tejwani Actor on his career in Bollywood and TV.
Manish Jha of Matrubhoomi fame has cast you in his next project Anwar. How did you bag the role?
It was quite sudden. I got a call from the producer asking me to meet Manish. When I met him he narrated the script and offered the role to me.
The script being a love story set in a Muslim background sounded quite interesting and seemed to offer a large scope of action and emotion which made me accept it.
Moreover, due to six parallel stories happening in the movie, each of the actors have been given almost equal space.
You are a big name on the small screen. But having done two other movies besides Anwar, do we see you shifting your focus to Bollywood now?
No. Small screen is what gives me job satisfaction. It is here that I've got the chance to experiment with varied roles, be it of a loving son or a husband with shades of grey.
And where movies are concerned, I have maintained a list of directors with me and will only work with them. Manish happened to be one of them.
Rest I have had many offers which were not performance oriented and so I refused.
With Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi slated for another leap of 20 years, aren't you apprehensive about getting moulded into the father image?
No, this happens in case you are acting only in one serial. I'm also there in another soap in addition to this movie that I'm doing, where I play my age. So I have no fears.
Moreover, in the soap Kyunki..., after the leap we will continue to look the same with no greying or whitening of hair done. So that way the leap is only with the intent to take forward the story.
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Straight Answers
ARUNIMA SRIVASTAVA
[ Friday, April 28, 2006 07:54:53 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
Hiten Tejwani Actor on his career in Bollywood and TV.
Manish Jha of Matrubhoomi fame has cast you in his next project Anwar. How did you bag the role?
It was quite sudden. I got a call from the producer asking me to meet Manish. When I met him he narrated the script and offered the role to me.
The script being a love story set in a Muslim background sounded quite interesting and seemed to offer a large scope of action and emotion which made me accept it.
Moreover, due to six parallel stories happening in the movie, each of the actors have been given almost equal space.
You are a big name on the small screen. But having done two other movies besides Anwar, do we see you shifting your focus to Bollywood now?
No. Small screen is what gives me job satisfaction. It is here that I've got the chance to experiment with varied roles, be it of a loving son or a husband with shades of grey.
And where movies are concerned, I have maintained a list of directors with me and will only work with them. Manish happened to be one of them.
Rest I have had many offers which were not performance oriented and so I refused.
With Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi slated for another leap of 20 years, aren't you apprehensive about getting moulded into the father image?
No, this happens in case you are acting only in one serial. I'm also there in another soap in addition to this movie that I'm doing, where I play my age. So I have no fears.
Moreover, in the soap Kyunki..., after the leap we will continue to look the same with no greying or whitening of hair done. So that way the leap is only with the intent to take forward the story.
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