Actor Randeep Hooda admitted that he was upset when he didn’t win too many awards for his performance in the Sarabjit Singh biopic Sarbjit. In an interview, he was asked if he felt ‘disappointed, cheated, upset’ when his co-star, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, walked away with the lion’s share of the plaudits for that film. Randeep said that one shouldn’t give too much importance to awards, but moaning about it now could sound like a case of sour grapes.
In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Randeep was asked about being overlooked for Sarbjit, and he said, “Firstly, as an artist, if you are gauging your worth on the basis of how many awards you’ve won, it’s not going to be very helpful. The recognition that you get from your fraternity can be encouraging, but all I can say is that I’m happy for Aishwarya that she won, even though I didn’t. To now complain that I deserved it more would be unbecoming. If people say it, that’s a victory in itself.”
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He continued, “I’ve never indulged in this kind of talk, because it would seem like a case of sour grapes. Did I feel bad? Of course I did. But it’s not like the world ended. You move on to the next thing. But as an actor and filmmaker, if I give others this much control about my own self-image, I would’ve been done a long time ago.”
Recently, Randeep remarked about the failed attempts to make Aishwarya look less glamorous than she does in real life for her character in the film. He told Humans of Bombay, “She was great, very courteous, she does her job well. She’s all there, she’s very sincere about it. Although we didn’t have many interactions on set because a lot of my scenes were away from her, but whenever we did, she was all that she’s made out to be.” He added with a smile, “They tried their best to make her look real, but she’s so unreal.”
In an interview with Ranveer Allahbadia, Randeep also spoke about the process that he adopted to get in the skin of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian farmer who was convicted of espionage after wandering into Pakistan, and subsequently died in captivity two decades later. He said, “The first thing I did was I stopped flushing the toilet. I would switch off the bathroom lights, and I’d chain my hands and feet and lock myself around the shower area. I would spend time there. It was very difficult in the beginning. I would write letters to my director Omung Kumar, which I never actually sent to him.”
Randeep can currently be seen in his biopic of the controversial nationalist figure Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The movie opened to muted response both critically and commercially last month.
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