The talented and versatile star Pankaj Tripathi, who impressed us with his performances in films like Gangs Of Wasseypur franchise, Stree, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and others, is currently basking the success of Mirzapur 2 as audience are lauding his character of Kaleen Bhaiya. During an conversation in India Film Project, the actor spoke about how he discovered one of the key traits in the character of Kaleen Bhaiya as he said, "I've been doing pretty similar kind of acting for several years now. So, I don't know what they really like in this particular character so much. It also depends on which platform your project is being released and what is the reach of that particular platform. The whole packaging and marketing of the project and the character play a very important role in order to take it to a wider audience. But honestly, I don't really analyse as to why my certain characters worked more than the others. And, I don't feel that one should really look for the reasoning as to why an audience starts loving a certain actor."
The actor shared an anecdote, when he realised about his character of Kaleen Bhaiya, when he began the shooting of second season as he revealed, "On day 1 of Mirzapur 2 shooting, my director (Gurmmeet Singh) told me, 'Pankaj ji, aap aisa nahi karte the season one mein.' When I asked him what he meant, Gurmeet explained, 'In season one, Kaleen Bhaiya would not let the audience know whether he was convinced by someone's idea or not. His character was so unpredictable that no one could figure out whether he liked Munna's idea or not. But this time, you are giving out that unpredictability so easily.' Surprisingly, they themselves discovered this on the editing table as Guru told me this thing wasn't there in the writing. Then they showed me one of my scenes from season one and I finally figured out one of the main traits of Kaleen Bhaiya's character."
Speaking about the preparation of the character, he added, "I'm 45 years old. If I take 2-3 months to prepare for a certain role, my 45 years of preparation as an actor gets added to it. So if you will ask me to analyse my performance, I may do it for the sake of it but I feel we all add our acting and life experiences to our parts in one way or the other. Having said that, it can happen that one actor might have a lot of life experience while his or her co-star could be on the first day of the job. I feel if our co-actor doesn't have as much experience, then you must help them. For me, before being a co-actor, that person is a fellow human being, a box, full of dreams, which is being opened for the first time. So you should protect, support that person."
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