One Is Company!
Posted by admin on 31st July 2007
One is Company!
Once candid, today Vivek Oberoi has built walls around himself
Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
It’s me! Vivek Oberoi says God is the greatest scriptwriter
With Shootout at Lokhandwala a hit, Vivek Oberoi is back in business and has turned didactic these days.
“I am acting since the age of four. When I joined the industry, fame and adulation was the last thing on my mind… I just wanted to act. But along the way in the last five years I lost the path and the industry proved why it’s called the ‘mayanagari’.” He pauses, only to add, “A lot has happened and you can put it in inverted commas, making me realise to stop and introspect. I cut down on my assignments so much that today I have just one film in my hand. But no, I am not free…I am busier than ever before. I am a mast maula…today I have time for myself, my hobbies and am preparing for roles better. Shootout… is an example.”
Is the glee on his face for real? “Absolutely!” But isn’t he a good actor? “Both ways it is a compliment.”
We know Vivek has never been short of wisecracks and many feel that it’s this habit of sharing everything with the media that spoiled his professional and personal relationships.
He feels the media laps up everything when the winds are blowing your way and when things change for the worse, the same stories are turned against you.
But doesn’t refusing offers like Hum Tum or Munnabhai MBBS amount to hara-kiri? “What I was did was equally good. A solo-hero film with Subhash Ghai (Kisna), a film with national award winning director E.Niwas (Dum). In hindsight I can say I didn’t make a mistake, but I have learnt a lot.”
Extreme reactions
Again he has a point to make. “None of my films have done average business. Either they are big hits or super flops. I love such extreme reaction to my work.” The latest reaction is that his hair style suits only gangster films…Company, Omkara and Shootout…. “Really, but I am not going to change it.” On a serious note, he shares how hard he worked to get into the character of Maya Dolas. “I spent time with some hardened criminals. One of them who started early made me understand how when a 17-year-old commits murder he is full of fear. He tells everything to his colleagues. But once he kills two more, he takes it as an act of bravura. Later the exact description changes into dialogues, and gradually crime becomes a way of life.” These days one of his hobbies is to work on his body, for his character in his next film, Apoorva Lakhia’s Mission
Istanbul, requires it. “It’s almost the same team that worked in Shootout…” Rumours are rife that a project by the same production house on the Parliament attack is afoot as well. “It
217;s true but in very early stages.” True rumours again!
Another change in Vivek is that he no longer likes to talk about his NGO working in tsunami hit areas or his spiritual side which takes him to Rishikesh quite often. “Over the years I have realised that it is for people to judge your work rather than you talking about it. As for spiritual, I see Him in everyone. To me He is the greatest script writer.”
ANUJ KUMAR
Hindu On Net
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