Mumbai, Actor and acting coach Saurabh Sachdeva says he does not view negative roles as mere antagonists but as individuals with distinct personalities and motivations.
“People can typecast you, but it is the shape that I have to give to the characters. Before foraying into acting, Sachdeva worked behind the camera as an acting coach and he attributed his delayed start as an actor to personal self-doubt. “It was my own incompetence and I was operating from, ‘I’m not enough, I’m small’, I was operating from this thought process. Some of my coaches helped me to rectify that and compete with that and move on. “I was surprised when ‘Sacred Game’ came out and that my character became big, despite the screen time being very less.
If you see all my negative characters, you might say, ‘Oh, it’s a negative character’, but they are different human beings, different personalities,” Sachdeva told PTI in an interview. Sachdeva, who currently stars in a key role in Nitesh Tiwari’s “Ramayana”, said actors should not blame the industry for typecasting as he believes it is up to them to decide whether they allow themselves to be confined to a particular image. So, ever since it was rectified, I’ve been moving forward and forward,” he said. Sachdeva made his acting debut in 2017 with the film “Maroon” but gained recognition for his role as Suleiman Isa in the Netflix series, “Sacred Games” . I was really surprised by the love of people,” he said. Sachdeva said working with filmmakers such as Anurag Kashyap and Nitesh Tiwari has taught him to adapt to different creative temperaments and working styles.
