A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
Bollywood is a strange world.
There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.