Rishi Kapoor on Bollywood: “If you are not competent enough you cannot survive”
Rishi Kapoor believes that Bollywood has now started telling more diverse stories, making the industry more welcoming for character actors like himself.
Kapoor, whose flourishing career is filled with strong character-driven roles, told PTI that, “Those hackneyed plots are not going to be accepted. It is a healthy thing that actors of my age are getting work today. I am not a young actor. People want to see different kinds of films. They are fed up of seeing same formula.”
“This is the era of actors now, non-actors are not going to survive. They may be there for one or two films but if you are not competent enough you cannot survive.”, he added, sharing that performance-based roles are what appeal to him as an actor. “I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters. I am not stagnating in one kind of an image. I am an actor who is doing his job. I am not making a career for myself. What safe (roles) can character actors play? They don’t matter at all.”
Rishi Kapoor’s latest film ‘102 Not Out’ (2018), released on 4th May, is a comedy exploring the relationship between an aging son and his father, played by Amitabh Bachchan.
