TLI Staff
New Delhi: After playing detective Dev, Ashish Chowdhry is set to surprise his fans with another new look and character. Back after a gap of a year, Ashish Chowdhry will play a powerful businessman Mritunjay Roy in Beyhadh 2 opposite Jennifer Winget and will be sporting salt and pepper look.
The actor is excited about playing a multi-layered character with a lot of mystery attached to it, especially his look which adds to the character’s appeal.
“I did not believe that I am getting to play a role like this at such an early stage in my career. It is a very challenging character, it needs a lot of maturity and it is not an easy role to play because it has got a lot of variation and mystery. Also a get-up enhances the performance of an actor. If you notice in feature films, actors with get-ups are in a different zone as they get into the skin of the character. The kind of maturity, difficulty and variation that this character requires is actually why I chose this role.”
The actor has not qualms about ageing on screen and is happy that he’s able to break the image of a comic actor in films by getting into television, where he got to play a variety of roles.
“There are actors who tilt towards vanity in their roles, who want to look good and believe in the way they are presented and how their characters look on screen. They forget to look into how the characters can amuse them. Amusement in a role is what the actor should look at, at least I look at it like that. I cannot complain about what all I got to do in my feature films, I can’t complain about doing those comedy roles in films because that’s what I got. I have been known as a comic actor and it troubled me. When I got into television, it gave me options, it gave me new opportunities and I got to pick what I wanted to do. I am enjoying this phase,” he says.
Ashish Chowdhry is happy with the direction his career is taking and hopes the show would open a lot many options for him.
“Once you realise that you can do what you want to, you want to do something that you have never done before. I have done a lot of romance and comedy in the past and I was looking for something new. I feel today is the beginning of my career because whatever I have done before seems like a choice I made during my struggle time. I feel I am at my best right now and I think going grey is the coolest thing that I have ever done. I feel doing this show will open up a variety of choices for me,” he said.
Jennifer Winget will soon return with the second installment of her psychological thriller Beyhadh 2.
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