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The Animal was once hungry to prove a point. Actor Bobby Deol said that his 2.0 phase started with Salman Khan’s Race 3 and the multi-starrer comedy Housefull 4, but these big-budget projects didn’t really let him showcase his craft. Bobby, who is currently garnering rave reviews for his negative turn in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal, said he was definitely back in the public eye thanks to Race 3 and Housefull 4, but people started waking up to the actor in him once he shifted to OTT.
“I did Race 3, Housefull 4 but as an actor they were not giving me that kind of satisfaction. Yes, people noticed me, younger generation came to know who Bobby Deol was, it worked for me that way. When I did Class of 83, it all started for me from there, when people started believing in me as an actor, then Aashram happened,” Bobby told Bollywood Hungama.
The actor said it was director Prakash Jha’s Aashram which finally got him the acclaim as well as the numbers, when the show became a hit. The series featured him as Baba Nirala, a character Bobby said he was so scared to take up that he didn’t inform anyone in his family that he is doing it. “I was very scared when I did the show. Not scared that I won’t be able to do what I want to do as an actor but because people might take it in a wrong way. It is a fight that every actor goes through, you are not trying to promote something, we are portraying characters. When I was playing the character, I didn’t tell me father, brother or mom. I didn’t tell them because I felt they would influence me into not wanting to do it.
“I was so determined to do it. I told me wife and she said go ahead. She is my biggest strength, she knew exactly what I was trying to do. I told her this is my character; he does all of these things. She was fine. The amount of love that was later showered on me… My brother (Sunny Deol) always says Aashram was my Gadar on OTT,” he added. In Animal, which is scripting box office history, Bobby is seen alongside Ranbir Kapoor. The film released last Friday to huge social media outrage for its problematic portrayal of women.
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