Aditya Rawal opens up on working with Hansal Mehta in Faraaz; calls it “enlightening experience” : Bollywood News

Aditya Rawal, son of the actor Paresh Rawal, recently had his first theatrical release with Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz. For the unversed, the crime thriller is a hostage drama about a terrorist taking a number of people hostage at an eatery in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016. While speaking about his experience of working with Hansal Mehta, Aditya also opened up about his take on OTT vs theatre debate.

Aditya Rawal opens up on working with Hansal Mehta in Faraaz; calls it “enlightening experience”

It all happened during his interview with Free Press Journal. Talking about Faraaz, Aditya asserted, “I didn’t see any risk, rather I took it as an opportunity. It was such an enlightening experience to work with Hansal Mehta. It feels good to be able to find a character amidst this kind of brutality is just amazing. I think, this is the beauty of our profession, that we get to learn and discover things and characters which we otherwise wouldn't in real life. Playing a terrorist on screen is interesting since most of our lives, we see about them in the news. So for me, it was an opportunity written all over it.”

He further explained, “If you see my previous work, whether it is Bamfaad, where I play a college student from Allahabad or a tribal in Aar Ya Paar, and now I played a terrorist. I feel I have displayed enough versatility in my roles so far in a very young career. Hopefully, it reflects in my choices as well. I would also love to do comedies that are closer to myself. It is just a way of expanding my horizons.”

When asked if the big screen content excites him more than OTT, he replied saying, “Honestly speaking, I don’t think in those terms. My director told me one thing which my father also echoed: that I should look for good stories only irrespective of their mediums. Since I have a Gujarati middle-class upbringing, I understand economical sustainability. I don’t want to be demanding at all.”

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