Whatever knowledge I have developed about acting, the credit goes to Naseer sir. I have worked with him in three-four projects.Įvery time I talk to him, it is a learning experience. Naseer sir was my teacher in NSD, I have learnt under him. You have worked with actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri, Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik Roshan. IMAGE: Naseeruddin Shah, Amit Mistry, Rajesh Tailang, Sheeba Chaddha and Ritwik Bhowmik in Bandish Bandits. When I started, there were only two channels - Doordarshan and Zee TV.īesides commercial films, there are independent films and short films. There are so many channels and OTT platforms. It has improved for the younger artistes.Įven if they can't make a name, they can survive. When I started, the situation was really bad. Is it difficult to survive in film industry because of its uncertainty?
Richie mehta on delhi crime series#
I have done series like Mirzapur, Crackdown, Bandish Bandits, Selection Day, Delhi Crime. I played the lead role and also wrote the dialogues.Īfter that, things were not smooth, but at least I started getting good roles.īefore that, whatever roles I got in films were just three or four scenes and I didn't want to do that.Īfter Siddharth, I played significant characters in Umrika, Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Phantom, Omerta.īut the boost in my career is because of the OTT platform. Siddharth was the turning point of my career. So I returned to Delhi and started doing theatre. I thought that if I love acting, I can do it in any medium. There were no good roles for me and in films, I was not getting good roles. I couldn't fit in that kind of television. It was more about saas-bahu and for younger people.
so many shows based on literary works like Ghalib and Rabindranath Tagore's stories. It was the post Balaji phase and there was no place for actors like me.īefore the Balaji phase, that is before 1997, there was a lot of work done on classics like Ek Kahani, Swaraj, Bharat Ek Khoj.
The reason why I moved back was that I did not want to do serials.īy then, the type of serials that were made had changed. I moved to Delhi and started doing theatre actively and teaching at the National School of Drama. I was doing theatre in Mumbai and Pune in between my film and television work. IMAGE: Rajesh Tailang in Richie Mehta's Siddharth. Some were stalled in between, some never released.Īs an actor, I feel I should do my job and move on. It was his first film as director and it never released.ĭoes it upset you when a film does not release? My second film was Hansal Mehta's Jayate. Then I thought I should do it because that was my job as an actor.Ī lot of people stopped me from playing a 60 year old, but I wanted to work with him and did not want to lose the opportunity. In Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa, I played a 60-year-old man at the age of 26. I worked with Govind Nihalani in all the three Hindi films that he made: Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Takshak and Dev. Your first film was Govind Nihalani's Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa. She has changed not just physically, but as an actress too.
We used to rehearse together because it was a three camera set-up and we had to shoot the entire scene in one go. She did Mass Communication and was assisting Prahlad Kakkar in his ad films. If I remember correctly, she was not interested in acting. How much has Mandira Bedi, who led the cast in Shanti, changed through these years? That was one of the reasons why we came together for Delhi Crime.Įveryone in the country was enraged about the incident, so automatically the approach was different. It's a reminder that something like this should never happen. Still, it's fresh in our minds even today. We shot it in 2018, six years after the incident took place. What was going in your mind when you were shooting for Delhi Crime since the series is based on the horrific Nirbhaiya case? The OTT platform has also given Tailang a boost in his career, as he is seen in such shows like Selection Day, Bandish Bandits and Mirzapur,īut as he tells Patcy N/, "I still have to get one more boost in my career."
Richie mehta on delhi crime serial#
The actor, who started his career with the trend-setting television serial Shanti in 1995, owes a lot to Delhi Crime Director Richie Mehta even before this Web series came along. "I told my colleagues that since we got nominated, we had a good chance of winning the Emmy," Rajesh Tailang says, referring to the Web series Delhi Crime winning the top Emmy for Best Drama Series. Photograph: Kind courtesy Rajesh Tailang/Twitter
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