Like all actors,
Balaji Manohar, too is happiest when he’s facing the camera. And even more so, when it’s back on sets for the first time for him, post the recent second lockdown. “Artistes don’t come under essential commodities, but during lockdown, it was art that everyone turned to for solace and comfort, isn’t it?” smiles Balaji, who headed to Honnavara this week for the filming of
Bandook
.
“It’s a new-age film directed by Mahesh
Ravi Kumar and I play a retired cop, who is an alcoholic. He gets hired unofficially to crack a case.
Shwetha Prasad
plays my better half and is a cop, too,” he tells us. Elaborating further on the role,
Balaji
shares that the reason this character appealed to him is because he liked the vulnerability it portrayed.
“Given how I look — my gait and my height — I’m usually offered the tough guy roles or perhaps villainous parts. But this guy is all about showing his frailties/his vulnerable side. And that felt different,” states Balaji. The sums up he likes working with new-age directors and it gives him an opportunity to indulge in unexplored aspects of him as an artiste. “There’s
Kannadiga
and
Avatara Purusha
, too and you will see me playing characters that are in stark contrast to who I am in Bandook,” he wraps up.
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