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The actor has has Raj Kumar Gupta’s PILL coming up on JioCinema that streams from July 12. He has given some immensely successful franchises like Masti, Dhamaal, and Housefull read more
 "'I didn't want to do Dhamaal, gave the cheque back to director Indra Kumar because...'")
There are few in the business who are as versatile as Riteish Deshmukh. He has dabbled with every possible genre and carved his niche in the Hindi film industry. He has Raj Kumar Gupta’s PILL coming up on JioCinema that streams from July 12. He has given some immensely successful franchises like Masti, Dhamaal, and Housefull.
In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, when asked about working with director Indra Kumar in Masti back in 2004, this is what the actor had to say- “I remember a day specifically because I think first 2-3 days, I was not getting it. Induji was very patient with me because I was a newcomer, and he thought he’ll get it. And then I just tried to imbibe and understand what he’s trying, because I truly believe in the 21 years of my career and having worked on so many comedies, there is no director who can act comic scenes like Indra Kumar. What we do in Dhamaal or Masti is just 15% of what he shows us. He is that good.
The next question was about the cult of Dhamaal (2007) and this was a revelation that Deshmukh made for the first time. “I will tell you a trivia that no one knows. This is the first time I’m telling this about Dhamaal. I was doing a lot of multi-starrers. I had finished Masti and Induji offered me Dhamaal. He came and signed me. I wrote a letter to Induji saying that I don’t want to do the film because I’ve done too many multi-starrers, and please excuse me. And I returned the cheque to him. He said he wanted to meet me again. He came to meet me on my set and he said, ‘I respect this, but you have to do this film. And I said, okay. Now let’s do that.”
The actor added, “I’m so grateful that he thought of me for that role and made me part of this franchise, and we are now doing part 4. But, imagine that I didn’t want to do the film, not because I had an issue with it, it’s just that I was just involved in too many multi-starrers. Imagine if I had not done Dhamaal, I would have regretted all my life.”
And according to him, what are the qualities of an architect an actor needs to have too. He says, “Sense of proportion. Because, everything in life is about proportion. Beauty lies in its proportions. When you look at a face, the proportion of everything matters, right from my eyes to nose, lips to forehead to everything. And that is what beauty is in everything of you. In your performance, there has to be certain proportion of what you want to pour in. Your emotion, everything. So everything in life and is about proportions and that’s why if you ask me what architecture has taught me, is proportions.”
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