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Rajkummar Rao on ‘Omertá’: “It was a tough & disturbing process”

Rajkummar Rao’s filmography is not one that many Bollywood actors can vouch for. From a young cricket enthusiast in ‘Kai Po Che!’ (2013) to his role as terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh in the just released ‘Omertá’, Rao’s versatility seizes to amaze. To his own admittance, he says that he prefers roles with an extra edge to it, and his role in ‘Omertá’ was a tough and disturbing process.

Rao told PTI, “I do not like something that comes easily and naturally to me. I like pushing myself as an actor. I like to play roles that challenge me and I can do something different. There has to be an extra edge to it. I enjoy that. All the characters that I have played, I could somewhere connect with them, either I know that person or make it my own and do it. But I don’t know this world at all, I don’t know anybody like him. So everything had to come from within. I know there is a lot of hatred and anger inside Omar and that was challenging to do. It was a tough and disturbing process to live with that kind of hatred.”

‘Omertá’ is directed by Hansal Mehta.