The Conscientious Actor | Q&A – Leisure News

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Rahul Bose stands out in a milieu that has come to prize quantity over quality.

Rahul Bose

Rahul Bose stands out in a milieu that has come to prize quantity over quality. Unwilling to compromise in the latter half of his career, the actor finally said yes to a part in Netflix’s Bulbbul.

Q. Bulbbul marks your original streaming debut…

I have been offered around 80 OTT projects. Of them, only 10 made it to the scripting stage. I dismissed 50 after hearing the log line. You can smell a shoddy project from a mile away. I have only said yes to another series and have a generous guest appearance in another one.

Q. So what convinced you to do Bulbbul?

I have always used five parameters to decide if I do a film or not-the story, the character I’m playing, if the character drives the story, who my co-actors are, and who the director is. With a first-time director you can’t be sure, so I look for vision and passion. Anvita Dutt had both.

Q. You may come across as a snob to some with those parameters.

In this second half of my life, I’m not willing to compromise. You just have to be on social media to see how stupid people are, and that stupidity makes them see you as a snob just because you say ‘No’ to bad work. They should be thankful there are artists saying ‘No’, so they are not subjected to torture.

Q. You have worked on a domestic violence public service campaign during lockdown

I consider it to be something I would gladly do any day of the year, lockdown or no lockdown. Public service initiatives come and go, but it’s the long-haul philanthropy that tests your resilience and character.

Q. Is there anything this lockdown has taught you?

It has been pretty horrific and challenging to see what the country is going through. People just trying to go home is not something you would have envisaged as being such a human tragedy. Each of those images is a terrible mirror to where we have reached and who we are.

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