While top stars are attempting parts more youthful than their real age, on-screen character Sanjay Dutt needs to make another way for himself by playing his age on the silver screen.
Post his correctional facility term, Dutt is back with Bhoomi, which discharged today. The PK star assumes the part of a father to Aditi Rao Hydari’s character.
The on-screen character additionally has somewhere in the range of eight to nine movies in pipeline incorporating the following in Munnabhai arrangement, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3, Malang, Shiddat, Marco Bhau, Torbaaz, Nishikanth Kamath’s untitled film.
“I am doing scripts according to my age and which I want to do. I think that is one slot or genre that is not tapped here in India. I want to do that,” said Dutt.
“My thought process changed as I saw my beard getting white while I was in jail. Now I can’t be dancing around trees and dancing around a college campus. I want to play roles around my age,” the actor says.
His contemporaries like the three Khans — Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar are romancing younger actors and while Dutt is more keen to do a “mature love story where there is a lot of performance”.
“I have played the role of the father in Mission Kashmir to Hrithik Roshan. My mother did Mother India when she was 26, so I think actors who attempt to play the role of a father or mother, they are playing a character. And there is nothing to get scared of.”
Notwithstanding a colossal lineup of intriguing movies, Dutt says he intentionally picked Omung Kumar coordinated Bhoomi as his rebound film as it had a message in spite of being a commercial film.