PRIYANSHU CHATTERJEE

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Acting is a sport to me, I enjoy being in the ring and playing it.

Everybody is so right when they keep raving about their work experiences with Mr. Bachchan. It was a treat really. He has honed his craft to another level altogether.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

I had a couple of releases including Dil Ka Rishta,' Koi Mere Dil Mein Hai,' Madhoshi,' and Julie,' but they were badly released and went unnoticed.

Today, presence on social media has become a yardstick to be cast - the parameter to get a job.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

I am basically a Delhi boy who has been living in Mumbai for the past 12 years.

Ranbir Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt - they are all talented. Their work is making the industry better.

I know the volume of my work is less and I would have wanted to do more films. But I can't do just any role. That's the reason why I have done less crappy films.

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

My first film was a super-hit. It made the producer earn a lot of money and gave me a lot of fame. The funny part is that I acted in Tum Bin' as a project for which I was paid a stipend and not the money that comes to the star of a very popular film.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.

I enjoy watching Daniel Day Lewis, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey.

'Little Baby' is a beautiful film about father and daughter relationship which talks of generation gap.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

If you want to keep a relationship, you must nurture them with love.

I miss roaming around the Basant Lok market, eating out, the Capital's wide roads.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

The Mumbai film industry has definitely a bigger reach. But considering the rich content of work in many Bengali films, even by new directors, there has to be a better financially backed distribution model for films here.

Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same time it is important that they are guided as a friend when they go through adolescence.

I didn't want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn't work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.

Switching genres actually motivates me.

'Majaz' is going to be an important film in my career and I will be seen in a different role in this film.

Everybody I meet is a star. In Bombay it is crazy and even TV has become so big that there are just too many stars and there is too much greed for that little space on the newspaper.