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It’s been a long time since he’d done a Telugu film. What made him chose Anasuya? “I have directors coming to me with cliched stories but this time I liked Ravi Babu’s narration. There was some cockiness, subtle romance everything about it. For Idi Sangati, director Chandra Siddartha wanted me to match up with Tabu they wanted me as a married thirty-plus guy with mature look, to put on weight and have a beard. I liked his script, it had an unusual, grey shade. I enjoyed, had a blast in the last two movies. Then there is Satyam Sivam Sundaram releasing this month (Tamil) I played for the first time an anti-hero. It’s one of my best performances till date. I’m doing a solo film Rudramani too. Ask Abbas about the inconsistent career graph and he explains, “I’m basically a content person but moody, I might do eight films sometimes, one film and sometimes nothing at all. The biggest battle is within me, I don’t have to compete with bank balances, number of hits, cars etc. I always take off when I feel like. I don’t need to compete with other people. I’ll do films on my terms and conditions, whatever role it might be. Also my PR skills are poor, once my shooting is done I stay at home and watch TV, there is no socialising, don’t take producers and directors for dinner. I guess you got to be there and when the opportunity comes we got to grab it, that’s exactly what I’m doing”. The actor lives with his family in Chennai and speaks Tamil fluently, though his Telugu is little jerky. “My folks live in Bangalore and I have a special attachment to Hyderabad, I’ve seen this city grow. My mum visited Moulali and asked for a mannat, and then she conceived me. Everytime I come here I make it a point to go to this dargah and yes, gorge on Paradise biryani. ”

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