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After 15 years of struggling to make his kind of cinema, Rajat Kapoor has come into his own. Now an established actor and a director who’s found a firm footing, Rajat talks about his latest effort to break away from being stereotyped in a role – a film called Hulla…

You played a major role in seeing the Hulla project through. How did it all come about?

Jaideep Varma (director of Hulla) had seen my film Raghu Romeo, and so he approached me to direct Hulla. But I only direct what I write and have my own stories to tell. And since he had so much faith in the project, I asked him to direct it. I agreed to be the executive producer of the film, which is how Sunil Doshi the producer came into the picture. But later, I was also acting in it.

Sunil Doshi has also directed some of your films. Is that how he agreed to do Hulla?

Sunil is a phenomenal person and is backing a lot of brave, difficult films. I’m there in most of his films but not all.

It’s the first time you’re playing a middle-class man. How did it go?

Yes, in this film and in another film called Prisoner (for which I so modestly say I won an award at Osian’s), I’ve played middle-class characters. I’ve deliberately done it to break away from the Corporate image. So, it was good to play Janardan, the building secretary in Hulla.

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1. 

   neelu 15 September 2008
   09:47:39 am

   

   I find Rajat Kapoor a man filled to the brim with inconsistencies. He is arrogant (no worries there – any one can choose to be arrogant), condescending (same), but a decent actor. He says he is disinterested in his “commercial” roles like Krazzy 4 – but why does he do them? Is a gun held to his head? He lays lofty claims to making his own kind of cinema that is different from the crappy commercial fare. But anyone who can claim that they did something unique in Bheja Fry and takes a moral high ground over that, should be run out of town in my book. Stop ripping off classics Mr. Kapoor – if you are trying to be different then let us see you be different with unique material and not as a DVD copier.
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   jayshah 15 September 2008
   10:42:25 am

   

   I like him as an actor though, but he seems quite arrogant.
3. 

   Tango 15 September 2008
   11:16:40 am

   

   Rajal Kapoor is not arrogant. He is just a bit… hmmm.. let me not use a wrong word.. somewhat inconsistent and a bit vague. Gets lost in between conversation. That is my first hand experience of him.
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   neelu 15 September 2008
   11:20:30 am

   

   Tango anyone who thinks they are making groundbreaking cinema when it is a scene for scene ripoff are not ARROGANT, they are DELUDED Maybe he got dropped on the head as a kid and that is why is a bit vague and not quite there.
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   Tango 15 September 2008
   11:25:40 am

   

   Neelu baji (hope you dont mind it) I am just talking about Rajat as a person.

   Arrogantif it is anyone, its Naseeruddin Shah, trust me. I must add that I have had no personal bad experience from Naseer. Has talked nicely, but arrogant he is.
6. 

   Dionysiac 15 September 2008
   12:53:39 pm

   

   I prefer him as a director to actor.I loved his “Raghu Romeo” and “Mithya”,the latter by far the best movie of this year IMO.
7. 

   Tony Montana 15 September 2008
   03:32:18 pm

   

   I hated ‘Mithya’. Very unengaging and a little confused.
8. 

   rks 29 September 2008
   02:49:42 pm

   

   Our approach to filmmaking is wrong: Rajat Kapoor

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