Bohni Bandyopadhyay chats up Rahul Bose, who plays a gay in his latest film I Am

HE is playing the role of a homosexual in Onir’s upcoming directorial venture I Am and actor Rahul Bose says the experience was complex as well as interesting.

"There is nothing effeminate about my character. To play the role, I had to understand how does it feel to be discriminated against everyday. Some people tend to overdo it, the whole aspect of being in love with another man, but it is about how you want to look at it. It was complex and interesting," Rahul said.

"I Am is a collection of four short films, each sharing the common theme of fear and is also based on real life stories. The film is slated to hit theatres in October.

The 43-year-old star’s career-graph boasts of both parallel and commercial films, but Rahul says he likes to break the monotone every time people try to put him in a "slot".

"When I did comedy in films like Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats, people tried to put me into the slot of a comic actor. But then again, I went ahead to act in films like Kaalpurush and Antaheen to break that image," said Rahul.

Although he enjoys serious films more, Rahul wants to try his hand at all kinds, be it horror, drama and, of course, action, but is apprehensive whether anybody will cast him as an action hero.

"I am too small an actor to justify the amount of money put behind an action movie. I could do it along with a superstar, but I don’t think anyone will cast me as a hero," said Rahul.

The actor was recently in the Capital to walk the ramp for designer Narendra Kumar as a part of Signature’s Seven Sensations Fashion tour.

"Walking the ramp is terrifying, especially because it is not what I was born to do. I have done it three-four times before, since I have some designer friends and also for some charity events," said Rahul.

The actor has two films ready for release this year, Kuch Love Jaisa and a horror movie called Fired. He is a name to reckon with in the genre of parallel films but Rahul is apprehensive about the future of such films since he feels people are less interested in investing their money in the genre these days.

"This is a very difficult time for parallel films. It is only the commercial films, which are selling now. Very soon, there will be a time when these small-budget parallel films will go straight to DVDs."

"Distributors are hardly interested in serious films. Japanese Wife did not have the money to even print the movie timings in paper," said Rahul. — PTI

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