Randeep Hooda has been a part of Bollywood for about two decades upholding a phenomenal body of work. Despite which Randeep not been a part of the highly celebrated so-called ‘camps’ or film events as he refuses to fraternize with these people and join the their events.
Randeep stepped into the films with 2001 Mira Nair directorial Monsoon Wedding, and went on to be a part of several box office hits like Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), Jism 2 (2012), Cocktail (2012), Kick (2014) Sultan (2016), and Baaghi 2 (2018). He also featured in Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011), Highway (2014) and Sarbjit (2016).
While speaking to Indian Express, he said, “I don’t think I have won any awards in my life and I don’t give a damn about them really. They are opinions. But, you aim to be honest with yourself and stay real. You’re trying to be yourself most of the time; if you start faking it in real life you start faking it on screen. That’s why I do not go to a lot of these events where you have to pretend to be this happy glamorous person, while you have a sh*tty life on the side. So, staying true to yourself and my work, and knowing that your job is not to please people keeps me grounded. I don’t think people pleasers make good actors.”
When asked about why he prefer to not socialize much, he said, “I guess I do spend a lot of time with real people and not so much with film people because at some stage we all get alienated and enter our cocoon. If you’re successful then you start living in an ivory tower. You will not be able to connect to people anymore, because you’re living in an isolated vacuum, so as to speak. So, obviously you have to be in touch with reality and the best way to do so is to have a conversation with your mother, she’ll put you right.”
Hooda will be next seen in the Netflix special Cat where he will be in the garb of police informant in Punjab. Helmed by Balwinder Singh Janjua the show airs on December 9.
