Govind Namdev reveals about scarcity of job offers post the success of 'Shola Aur Shabnam.' In an exclusive interview with Lehren Retro, he candidly unveils the challenges faced by him in the aftermath of film's success.
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00:00 Have you ever been in a situation where you are not working and you are worried?
00:06 A lot.
00:07 Especially after Covid, the way the situation has changed.
00:11 Everything was fine with Vishwa G.
00:15 It has happened a lot before.
00:17 There was a time, after Sholayam Shabnam, I had no work for about two years.
00:26 Okay.
00:27 Because that film had become a hit.
00:29 That's why you didn't get work.
00:30 That's why people want to give me the role of an inspector.
00:33 Okay, you made a type cast.
00:35 Yes.
00:36 And during the shooting itself, people told me, especially Mahavishal, who has passed away now.
00:44 He told me that this is my 28th film as an inspector.
00:48 No one gives me another character.
00:51 And then he told me that Jagdish Raj has only played the role of an inspector all his life.
01:00 So I got scared.
01:02 I got scared that if this situation is going to happen, I have not come to Bombay for this work.
01:08 I have a different respect, a different thought.
01:13 A good actor who works like this, like Shri Ram Lagu or Dilip sir, should be ideal for us.
01:20 So I said, if this happens, then this is wrong.
01:23 So I decided there.
01:25 I decided there that after the release of this film, I will not do such a role.
01:32 And when the film was released, it became a hit, people started remembering me for the role of an inspector.
01:37 G.P. Sippy, Rajan Kothari, these are all big names.
01:42 So I started refusing them.
01:45 So they thought that this is very arrogant.
01:50 Now this is also new.
01:53 So this rumor spread about me that this is a very arrogant actor who has played this role.
02:04 So people were calling me first, then people stopped calling me.
02:09 So I was a little confused at first, I kept thinking that now it will come, now it will come.
02:19 I saw it for a month and a half, I said this is wrong.
02:23 So then I started calling people.
02:26 So people started answering on the phone.
02:29 Now I am not doing the role of an inspector.
02:32 If there is some other role, I will tell you.
02:34 Now we have the role of an inspector.
02:36 Or the upcoming film of ours, for Inspector G.P. Rode.
02:40 Then I went to meet people, so they also started reacting like this.
02:45 In this circle, I did not get any work for two years.
02:49 Now you think, how will you spend two years with your family in Bombay?
02:55 This period of struggle is very…
02:58 So which film did you get, which you remembered, which gave you a new role?
03:03 After that I accepted a serial.
03:07 That too Bharat Rangachari, you may know Bharat Rangachari.
03:12 Who made the film Chattan, Vakth Hum Aara Hai.
03:16 He was a very good, intelligent director of the film.
03:19 He was from FTII.
03:21 So he kept meeting me on the phone.
03:24 So he called me once that I am doing a serial.
03:29 Would you like to do it?
03:32 So I got confused because I had decided that I don't want to do television.
03:37 Because my focus was to work in films and establish as a villain in films.
03:46 So I got a little confused.
03:49 Then I said, okay, I will call you in the evening.
03:53 So whenever there is confusion, I will definitely discuss it with my wife.
03:57 I told my wife about it. In this matter, I have received a lot of support from my wife.
04:02 In all kinds of problems, we have received a lot of support.
04:07 So she is my strength.
04:10 So I discussed with her.
04:13 I said, I have two feelings in my mind.
04:15 One is that if I do television, then it shouldn't happen that the film makers don't entertain you.
04:25 Which kept happening.
04:27 The other is that if I get this character,
04:32 He said that it is the main character.
04:34 So I said, if I get the main character,
04:37 then this character will be enough to establish that I can do other work besides being an inspector.
04:46 So these two feelings are coming.
04:49 So I have to decide.
04:51 Is this the same serial in which you played the role of your father?
04:55 Yes, I played the role of a businessman.
04:58 It was a serial called Parivartan.
05:00 It was of UTV.
05:02 UTV was a television producer.
05:06 All the roles you have played in films,
05:09 have you ever regretted or missed any role?
05:13 Or is there a dream role that you want to play?
05:17 If I get this role offer, I will do it first.
05:20 My thinking is very different.
05:22 I believe that the work I have done, the roles I have played, the films I have done,
05:30 the kind of directors I have worked with, the producers I have worked with,
05:35 people still remember my characters,
05:40 they tell me in dialogue what I have done.
05:44 So there is no definition of best.
05:49 If you do this, it becomes the best.
05:53 There is no ultimate.
05:55 Whatever you do, it is less than the ultimate.
06:00 So whatever work I have done, whatever work I have to do,
06:08 I do it with 100% effort.
06:13 Even after so much experience, I don't leave it.
06:21 Whatever work I do, I do it first.
06:24 First I go to the look, then I go to the characterization,
06:30 then I prepare it accordingly.
06:33 The films you have seen,
06:36 see Meghna Gunjarwali, it is a small role.
06:41 But you will feel that this is Sardar Patel's character.
06:47 Have you ever felt that a role is being played by another villain,
06:52 and you were offered that role and you rejected it,
06:56 and when the other person did it, it will be revealed.
06:59 Have you ever rejected a film that you regretted later?
07:04 No, no, there was no rejection.
07:07 There were some films that I did not do for some reasons,
07:11 and others did, but that is not the case.
07:14 I have always been making films like Amrish Puri made his name,
07:21 Mukam Bho Khus Hua, etc.
07:24 I did not get that position while working as a villain.
07:29 But I am satisfied that the work I have done,
07:33 people have accepted me in this way,
07:38 and I have been accepted as a different actor than others.
07:45 As they say, and I feel it too.
07:48 So this is enough for me.
07:51 And I believe that as long as I am in a position to work,
07:55 people are considering me for this kind of work.
07:59 The web series that I am doing now,
08:02 these days it is the OTT era,
08:05 so this is another opening for us.
08:09 Complicated characters are coming in front of us.
08:13 In some, I am doing a father,
08:16 a slightly crooked father.
08:21 If I talk about it,
08:26 there is a film coming up,
08:29 Sidharth Roy Kapoor's,
08:31 Where is that girl? Tapsi Pannu, etc.
08:34 In that I am Masala King,
08:37 the top industrialist.
08:39 I am very positive, everything came out well.
08:42 I have made the character of an industrialist in the same way.
08:47 Then there is a film, Gandhi Talks,
08:52 the name of the film is Gandhi Talks.
08:54 It is a silent film.
08:56 In this era?
08:58 In this era it is a silent film,
09:00 it is a two-hour movie,
09:02 all the South Indian stars are in it,
09:04 Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy.
09:06 This film is completely silent,
09:08 and it is a two-hour movie.
09:10 There is this variation.
09:12 In a web series, I am a sand mafia.
09:17 These are all upcoming projects.
09:19 These are all upcoming projects.
09:21 I am a Bahubali on the backdrop of Bihari.
09:25 Such characters,
09:28 and that Bahubali is also like that,
09:30 he has a hobby of wearing dresses.
09:33 He has a hobby of looking different every day.
09:36 Sometimes he puts on a hat on his kurta-pajama,
09:39 sometimes he wears a suit,
09:41 sometimes he wears the entire attire while riding a horse.
09:47 He is like this.
09:49 It is a wonderful, wonderful film.
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