Shreyas, additionally a famend artiste within the Marathi cinema, has made it a reputation for himself in Bollywood with none godfather or movie connection however the actor needed to expertise numerous biases as a result of he didn’t have a well-known surname.

The actor, who earned vital popularity of his terrific flip as a deaf and mute boy with a ardour for cricket in Nagesh Kukunoor’s Iqbal, says that he craves for roles that may problem his appearing capabilities just like the 2005 coming-of-age sports activities drama did.

Over the years, Shreyas Talpade may have become synonymous with multi-starrer comedies like Golmaal and Housefull but the actor feels that there’s much more to him as an actor that the industry is yet to explore.

Calling out the hypocrisy of Bollywood, Shreyas further says, “There are certain films of mine which bombed at the box office and there are certain films of certain actors which didn’t work but yet those actors keep getting work from big banners and you wonder how? My films bombed at the box office and certain people came and told me, ‘Yaar teri picture pit gayi toh agli picture ka price kum hoga.’ Then there are certain actors whose films bombed one after the other and yet you see them being signed by fantastic directors and you wonder why? This is the disparity which I don’t like. This is some kind of hypocrisy. Just say it in the face that you want that actor for something else and not for his performance. This is very unfair. You cannot have separate set of rules for certain people and separate rules for somebody else.”

However, Shreyas believes OTT platforms have somewhat democratised the acting space with the industry slowly becoming a level playing field.

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