Chunky Pandey's experience with mighty shades of grey

Chunky Panday who is popularly known by his character name Akhri Pasta from the film Housefull has opened up about playing negative roles in movies, saying that it makes him irritated and short-tempered.

Mumbai: Actor Chunky Pandey recently revealed that essaying a grey character was a big challenge for him. It made him short-tempered and irritable.

The actor has essayed negative roles in films like the 2019 hit Saaho and Begum Jaan which released in 2017. He played Devraj in the Prabhas-starrer Saaho, a thriller about power struggle among crime lords.

"In Saaho, I play a grey character, someone who is complex from within. Devraj is someone who has grown cold over time, to the extent that people might describe him as someone who has died a hundred times," said Chunky.

"This was one of the few times where I stepped away from the jovial and happy go lucky characters and took up a negative role. It was a challenge because I literally had to break through my established character and needed to show Devraj's coldness in my eyes," he added.

Explaining his point, he said: "Most of the times I used to prefer staying alone and use to take the liberty of staying deeply rooted in my character's personality off-screen as well which eventually resulted in me being short-tempered and irritable most of the time which was quite unlike me."

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Chunky continued: "It was a different yet a good learning experience altogether. And, I feel it just wasn't only my effort but I'd like to think of it as a team effort. Hope the audience also enjoys watching Saaho on Zee Cinema as much as we enjoyed working on it."

Saaho also featured Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Jackie Shroff.

Meanwhile, Chunky Panday is set to mark his debut in Marathi filmdom with Vikun Taak. The film is directed by Sameer Patil and is produced by Uttung Thakur.

It focuses on real-life problems of the underprivileged class in rural areas but takes a satirical approach to deal with the issues.

With inputs from IANS.