Paresh Pahuja on playing Raghu in Tandav: It’s a character that helped me grow personally
Actor Paresh Pahuja considers Ali Abbas Zafar his mentor. After playing Azaan Akbar in the director’s 2017 movie, Tiger Zinda Hai, Paresh performs an fascinating position in Tandav. Created and directed by Zafar, it’s an intriguing political drama, that includes the likes of Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia, amongst others. Explaining how he bagged the position in Tandav, Paresh says, “I play the character of Raghu Kishore in the collection. I obtained a name from the casting workforce. I went and auditioned for the half and obtained a name from the manufacturing workforce the identical day. I obtained on board for the present and I went and met Ali sir. Since I’d labored with him in the previous, I had no doubts concerning the half that he was providing me.”
While he has no main similarities with Raghu, Paresh loved the method of understanding the nuances of the character and discovering some relatability with him. “Raghu Kishore is the son of Anuradha Kishore (performed by Dimple Kapadia). But that’s not the one identification he has. He is a very eccentric and twisted sort of a man. He’s very distinctive throughout the world of Tandav and he’s very not like me. I’m glad that Ali sir trusted me with the half, as a result of I’m nothing like him in actual life. Raghu has his personal targets, motivation, disappointments, traumas and inside Tandav that he’s going by means of.
It’s fascinating how this entire dynamic of energy is affecting him. But I can say there are some similarities in the core between Raghu and me. He’s additionally coping with a lot of insecurities and looking for his place in the world, and so am I. It’s a character that helped me grow personally and perceive myself higher. That’s the great thing about performing, as a result of you find yourself discovering one thing about your self so deep that you didn’t know tips on how to faucet into,” says Paresh.
Prepping for the half was an thrilling, but advanced course of for the actor. He tried to grasp the character, each internally and externally, he says. “I didn’t know tips on how to begin the method as a result of he does issues that I don’t. After doing a little analysis, I attempted to grasp the world that he’s in, which is politics. Personally, the prep was extra inside, as a result of I wished to grasp what his function in this world is, what does he really need and to what extent can he go to get it. I wished to grasp what makes him weak. For me it was extra essential to reply these inside questions.
Externally, I sat with Ali sir to grasp extra about Raghu, as a result of he’s at all times very clear concerning the character that he’s constructing. Other actors on the present, like Saif, actually helped me. He was very beneficiant. He would come and share an incident and clarify the nuances that may very well be used for Raghu. It was very candy of him to do that. So was Dimple mam. She is the sort of actor you may study a lot from,” explains Paresh
He provides that it’s his particular bond with the director, Ali Abbas Zafar, which made it simpler for him. Explaining his particular relationship with him, Paresh says, “There’s a lot of mutual respect and belief. I look as much as him; he’s my mentor. He offers me roles that in all probability different folks received’t. He is aware of that I might pull them off. Usually folks simply need to forged you in roles that are much like what you’ve executed earlier than, however he offers me one thing very totally different. Tandav was my second venture with him and I’m doing yet another venture with him.
That says a lot concerning the sort of belief he has on me, as an actor. Other than that, there’s a nice bond that I share with him. Whenever I’m in doubt, I get in contact with him and he guides me almost about the strategy and the sort of initiatives I ought to do. He’s at all times there for me, and I’m going to be there for him, it doesn’t matter what.”
