Actor Vivek Oberoi’s film ‘Omkara’ completes 15 years of its release today. The actor revealed that he doesn’t consider the length of a role as much as he gives importance to the content.
Vivek, 44 said, “I’ve never been that actor who says, ‘Achha mera kya hai isme’. For me, more than perception and how it looks like on a poster, I’m more about the content. I had read a quote, ‘There are no small roles, only small actors’, and that stuck. If I hadn’t played the role of Keshav Upadhyay, I’d have felt like I missed something,” via Hindustan Times.
He continued, “It was such an amazing experience. Vishal bhai and I always had a great equation, and we were looking to collaborate on doing something together. I loved what he had done in Maqbool (2004) and Makdi (2002). He called me one day and said he was planning to make a film on the play Othello. I went over to hang out and he told me the basic story,” via Hindustan Times.
The actor had his sights set on the role of Langda Tyagi, which was played by Saif Ali Khan later. Speaking about it, he said, “I said I wanted to do that role, but Vishal bhai said, ‘You’re too young for it’. I said I’ll age myself, try and look older. But he needed a more mature face. Until then, I hadn’t done an all-out negative role. Langda was so colourful. Then I found out he had Saif in his mind. I thought, ‘What a lucky man’. There’s a lot of fondness and warmth that we share, but at that moment I was envious,” via Hindustan Times.
Taking about the award he won, he said Bhardwaj had promised the actor of the win, “He hugged me after my first shot and said, ‘You’re going to win an award for this’. I was like really? And it came through, I won it [for Best Supporting Actor],” via Hindustan Times.
