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Gayab for posterity
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More than a couple of years after announcing his arrival with "Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai", Tusshar Kapoor is yet to find his niche in the film world. ANUJ KUMAR speaks to the actor, now "Gayab" with a "Shart" up his sleeve.
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Tusshar Kapoor..now present in the Capital for "Gayab". - Photo: S. Subramanium
HE IS cute. He is affable. He has the pedigree. Everything is going for him save for the four flops on the trot. Enough to be called a failure, reason enough to go invisible? Not really.
As Tusshar Kapoor wears both the tags to take his latest box office test called Gayab, he puts them as possible tickets to eluding success. "After the success of Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai, I was offered similar romantic boy-next door roles. None of them worked. I was looking to do different characters and fortunately Ramgopal Varma offered me this Vishnu Prasad character, a so-called failure in life, self-centred, who could not do even simple things rightly, scorned by parents, jeered by friends and the girl whom he adores doesn't even know that he exists."
In an industry where heroes put self before the film - oversized spectacles, oiled hair and a picture of ridicule - seems like a desperate attempt but Tusshar calls it the new generation actors' inclination to surrender themselves to good concepts and directors. "I learnt this in my first film. Had I not given in myself completely to Satish Kaushik, I would have not been able to do justice to the film. Today more and more actors are willing to experiment." Isn't it something that separates him from his father? "Yes, it does. He didn't come out of his commercial mould in the latter half of his career."
However, Tusshar's romance with the diverse started early this year with Khakee, where he played the rookie police officer who matures in the last frame with aplomb. "Again all credit to the director Raj Kumar Santoshi. He could have easily fallen to the weathered formula and given me few dialogues and a heroine to sing a song. Instead, he gave me four powerful scenes to show my mettle. Significantly the last scene, wherein I encounter Ajay Devgan imbibing the best of both the schools of police system. I thought people wouldn't be able to understand the complexity involved. But good reviews and decent collections proved me wrong."
Back to Gayab, comparisons with Mr. India, the last film that utilised the invisibility potion for box-office salvation, are imperative. "Here there is no fantasy, no magic formula, no larger than life villains. The invisibility factor has been so well incorporated in the story of the Dadar boy that it looks realistic. Still, kids will love the film as much."
And if all this makes you believe the boy has evolved into a man, you are mistaken. Because in between he shares the fun of how he would love to catch people backbiting by doing a Gayab in real life. Or how he made his co-star Raman Trikha's head red by hitting continuously to slip in the reality element. Or how ridiculous was it in real life to walk across the road in a tight-fitted astronaut-like suit to become invisible on reel. Or the clarification, he is not doing a serial for his sister, just a special appearance as Vishnu Prasad in Kyunki Saas... . Or how he still finishes the day with Discovery Channel and the biography of Kalpana Chawla. Or for that matter the emotions of a son, who wants the encounters of criminals to be legalised because some shady elements are blackmailing his father.
Again at 26, Tusshar doesn't want to be repetitive, he is aware of his limitations, he is ready to wait, wants to incorporate the consistency of his father, wants to work with people who do not carry the baggage of the past. And it is more than a coincidence his forthcoming films are called Shart and Kya Kool Hain Hum.
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