Words matter. These are the best Jaideep Ahlawat Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The mode of work as well the reach of all media are different.
Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.
When ‘Raazi’ released, I think I was ready to embrace complex roles and some challenging characters with responsibility and restraint.
Hathiram Choudhary is a vulnerable, intense and deep character. Like every common man, he just wants to prove himself and better himself. But he is also bound by his philosophies.
I hope many think that I can also do vulnerable parts and not macho, antagonist parts in which they’ve seen me.
I love dancing and can very well manage Bollywood dancing.
More than good co-actors, if you have understanding co-actors, it becomes easier to relate with them. Many actors become insecure and get personal, which is not right.
As soon as the director says action, an actor has to do the same work no matter if the screen is small or big.
Acting is just part of my life. It is not my life. Whatever time I invest in acting I give my 100 per cent. But there are other things which are also important and I like to give equal attention to them.
It feels good to get new opportunities.
I have worked with brilliant people, so it has been a great journey and learnt a lot from them.
Most of the characters I’ve been offered have been very dominating and self-assured, maybe because of the way I look.
I weighed 100 kg while shooting ‘Paatal Lok.’ I am 6 feet and therefore it might not appear that I weigh so much.
Two directors always come with two thought processes.
When you come from FTII, people take you seriously. The environment at the institute is very conducive to learning.
Hathoda Tyagi is such a strong character despite no dialogues and expression. He’s the most difficult to break. It would’ve been interesting to play him.
Audience want to watch a good performance at the end of the day.
I was lucky to be a student of FTII, Pune.
Gangs Of Wasseypur’ was a confidence booster for me.
More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.
When you get creative liberty, it’s amazing.
When we don’t say ‘male director,’ then why call them ‘female directors?’
I have no complaints from my characters, be it in ‘Commando’ or ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ everyone on those films was grey.
I don’t think anyone will be able to answer why one did not get success from their work. It’s just part of life. Sometimes your work is good, but the character does not fully reach the audience.
I have to do good roles.
When you expect something, there’s also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.
In my village, Kharkara, 20 km from Rohtak, I would work in our fields of sugarcane, wheat and paddy while dreaming of the day I would join the army, and receive a hero’s welcome every time I came home on leave. In our part of the world, a soldier is a star.
I think with Shahid Khan I knocked at the door of Indian cinema. It was a beautiful character and Anurag Kashyap managed to bring that on screen with the same beauty. I was lucky to play him and become a part of a milestone film like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur.’
When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there’s a well-defined character written, then the attempt is to be as honest to the material as possible.
If tomorrow someone writes a romantic story, I’d like to bring a romantic shade of mine too. When someone puts that trust in you then you can do it.
At one time, smaller, and story-heavy films were not appreciated much but exposure has made the audience aware of what great story-telling is. This has also ensured that the right actors are cast for the right kind of roles.
Every actor has his own approach towards acting. I believe you do not become the character you are playing. You may get closer to it but you do not lose yourself. There’s just a reflection of the character in you.
One should approach life with a realisation that nothing is permanent.
If one keeps working hard then no one can stop them.
Being born in a small town, you have got many advantages. You get to experience so many things in life.
We all go through the phase where the work is slow and aren’t sure if what we are doing will have returns in the future or if it’ll reach people at all. You can’t fight that.
It’s foolish and such a shame that we attack those working for everyone’s safety.
They say, you don’t get anything before time and more than fate. I truly believe that and have never felt the need to fight it out, to say ‘why this didn’t happen earlier.’
I’m not the sorts to have many hopes. There’s no point.
Fame is a mirage.
FTII had people from all over India and abroad and they had a different mindset. They would talk about world cinema and there I was – the only foreign films I had watched were probably Arnold Schwarzenegger’s and dubbed in Hindi at that!
Hathi Ram’s journey intrigued me. He is a very vulnerable character. I was never offered such a role of a man who is a failure in life and is desperate to prove himself. It was a good change for me to play someone with such a nice arc and so many shades to his personality.
It is an interesting feeling to be appreciated within the industry and from the audience as well.
The time I heard the script for Hathiram’s character in ‘Paatal Lok,’ I was sure it is one of the best characters that I had ever been offered. I am extremely overwhelmed with the kind of responses that I am getting for the performance.
Even after my film ‘Khatta Meetha,’ I was jobless for a year.
It’s an extraordinary story told with simplicity. ‘Raazi’ is about people who put the country before anything else.
You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.
I’ve grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.
It’s not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.
When the coronavirus-positive cases were 500 in the country, you ordered the shops to shut down, and now when the tally has crossed 50,000 you are opening them. I don’t understand the logic.