Darlings actor Vijay Verma was told ‘tu Shah Rukh Khan nahi hai’ during struggle: ‘Today SRK has employed me for his film’

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Actor Vijay Verma said it was a classic underdog, where he switched from a wide -eyed boy with dreams who fled from his house and headed to Mumbai to eventually become an actor.

In this interview with Indianexpress.com, Vijay opened about how he navigated the phase where he did not have much job offered to him. He said he was a beggar who should not choose, but he made sure he turned him back to himself by choosing the right project and studying along the way.

About having great filmography with films like pink, a suitable boy, Gully Boy and Darlings, the actor said, “These projects come to me but I have to choose. I have a little trip. I was in a position where I did not have enough to choose so I had to take whatever I could be in a desperate time. Shortly thereafter, I thought even beggars could become voters. So from the beginning, in terms of auditions and all, I used to refuse to audition for parts that I did not like. “

I have decided that I have to take problems in my own hands and choose what I want to do with my career. I don’t want to do a role that I can’t be fair. I have to start from the beginning. And, fortunately for me, now I am in a place where I can make the type of film I want to do and the parts that I want to play. Now I have a small job, I am unable to repeat what I have done before. So, it became one of the criteria when choosing a script. The other is to understand what I do in the film and the third, and most importantly, is what the film is doing, what it says and how well it is, “he added.

Vijay also explained how his character and Alia Bhatt were in their favorite separate from what they did in Gully Boy. He said, “I have to make a conscious choice, because of me and Alia, both of them are also in Gully Boy. So, we want to ensure that we make a completely new identity. The text is rich enough to give us so much to eat.

I went to Byculla, hanging out with people, I heard their stories, I heard how they celebrated, how they spent their night, how they were obsessed with scrolls, how they like their social media and what music they listened to. I learned it and realized how there were more urdu in their ‘bambaiya’, which I love like me from Hyderabad. This is how I gather a small bit to become a Hamza who is a very honorable person, has a government work. “

Vijay has been an actor for ten years, and calls it a trip with a lot of learning. “Underdogs who came here ten years ago, felt visible now. I took some jumps, risks, and opportunities at a cost almost to break the whole family. I ran away from home. So, they all feel very pause now, they are afraid of how I do it, it’s not easy to go to Mumbai and become someone. I was told ‘Tu Shah Rukh Khan Nahi Hai’, but now Shah Rukh Khan has employed me for the film, “said Vijay.

Some of the best films in Vijay’s latest filmography have been led by female filmmakers. Darlings also, a film about domestic violence, directed by Jasmeet Keer, a debutant female filmmaker. About the look of women in the story, and if it makes a difference in the way the story is told, Vijay said, “There is no difference, but I like it when a female director directs me, especially when I play very evil characters. I like as seen by a female director. There is a particular look of a female filmmaker even for evil men, who are very loving. “

They want to say what this person’s monster is, but somehow it still raises a kind of empathy. But there is the same amount of vulnerability as, say shoojit sircar or Imtiz Ali or Zoya Akhtar brought to their film. They are both nuanced and loving. So practically there is no difference between different sexes in terms of working with filmmakers, but with my favorite I feel only a woman can tell the story, “said Vijay.