“Main Atal Hoon” actor Pankaj Tripathi has created dominance on screen through the teaser and trailer of Main Atal Hoon. Being the lead of this biopic, Pankaj Tripathi portrayed the role of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Pankaj Tripathi is in the limelight of the media due to various promotional events of this upcoming film and interviews. In one such interview with ANI, he talked about typecast and stereotypes in B-town. He mentioned Mukesh Ambani while citing an example of his statement.
He was explaining about looks as a prime factor in casting in Bollywood and a particular face gets stereotyped for that particular character. He cited the example of Mukesh Ambani saying he would not be cast as a rich man in Bollywood movies. Though Mukesh Ambani is the chairman of the Reliance industry and the richest man in India, he would not get cast as a rich man on the basis of his looks. Even if he were not a part of a huge empire and chose to go into acting, he would never get the role of a rich man as he doesn’t look like Bollywood movies’ rich man.
Bollywood movies have stereotyped certain occupations, certain characters in our daily life. And that’s why it is a demand that this particular role has to look like this. He said that in films we see Katrina Kaif as a doctor, but we don’t generally see such doctors at AIIMS. He talked about how, on the silver screen, even newcomers, junior artists have to look in an elegant manner. But he agreed that, nowadays, things are taking a turn and changing gradually.
Soon his movie Main Atal Hoon will release on January 19 in theatres. As Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a great leader, there are chances that theaters will be full of the audience.