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This Article is From Mar 25, 2012

Joker is the most challenging film of my career: Shreyas

<i>Joker</i> is the most challenging film of my career: Shreyas
New Delhi: He has tackled many comic as well as serious roles in his seven-year-old acting career, butShreyas Talpade says his character in the 3D film Joker is the toughest one ever as he is having to sketch it himself.

Directed by Shirish Kunder, the upcoming multi-starrer fantasy-adventure will see the 36-year-old actor playing acharacter called Babban that has not been written by Kunder in his script.

"My character 'Babban' has got no character sketch in Kunder's script. He just had the name in his mind and asked meto bring out the character in my own way. So, my character is the result of our permutations and combinations of acting onthe sets. "I was the last one to enter the team. It's one of the challenging roles of my life because I am writing my owncharacter. I am playing Akshay Kumar's younger brother in the film," Shreyas said.

The actor is now gearing up for the release of yet another multi-starrer Housefull 2 which also stars AkshayKumar, alongwith John Abraham, Riteish Deshmukh, Asin, Jacqueline Fernandez, Zarine Khan, Shazahn Padamsee, MithunChakraborty, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and Boman Irani.

Directed by Sajid Khan, the film will hit screens on April 5.

Shreyas, who has appeared in a number of comic multistarrers earlier, like Golmaal and Welcome to Sajjanpur, says he gets his due in such films even though there are a number of such actors.

"There is nothing bad in doing multi-starrers. If there was something wrong in it, career would have came to asaturation point. But in multi-starrers too, I get to play a new character each time."Here, I am playing a Sindhi fashion photographer, who is the most sober among the lot. It's not a typical Sindhicharacter which we see in our films," he said.

Shreyas started his film career with issue-based films like Iqbal and Dor but after Apna Sapna Money Money in2007 he shifted to the comedy.

"I took up comedy as a challenge. After Iqbal and Dor, I was getting typecast and was getting all serious kindof films. I had done many comic plays earlier in Marathi and I took up Apna Sapna Money Money whole-heartedly because I like doingcomedy. But now, I am longing for films like Iqbal to happen again," the actor said.

Shreyas has already shared screen space with superstars like Shah Rukh Khan (Om Shanti Om), Ajay Devgn (Golmaal series) and now Akshay Kumar (Housefull 2 and Joker), but the actor, who began his career with Marathi soaps, says hetried to learn the best from each of them.

"It was such an honour to work with the stars of the Bollywood. All of them are unique in their own sense and Itried to learn all the unique qualities from each of them. They all are lively and spread a positive aura around them,"he said.
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