This is what Vivek Oberoi had to do to convince filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma that he’s the right guy to play a gangster in his debut film “Company”.
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00:00I kick the door open, I swagger into his office,
00:03I pull up the chair without asking, I sit on the chair,
00:07and then I take it one step forward,
00:08I put my feet on his desk like that,
00:10and I say in Hindi, which is,
00:12hey, what are you looking at my face?
00:14Look at the photo, look at the photo,
00:15and I threw the bunch of photos.
00:16And when you got into acting,
00:23you made sure that you don't want to get off
00:26your father's name and success,
00:27and you changed your last name, I think.
00:30Is that correct?
00:31That's right.
00:33Partially.
00:34I found out about this film that's being made
00:37by Ram Gopal Verma called Company.
00:39And I wear my best clothes, I land up at the office,
00:45I've taken all my certificates,
00:46I've taken my audition tapes from New York,
00:50and I've got all this New York on my shoulder,
00:52and I'm walking in, and I meet the man,
00:54he was like, great, I can see you're very talented,
00:57you're a good actor, but you're not for me,
00:58not for this film.
00:59So I was like, why?
01:01He's like, you're too polished, you're too educated,
01:04you come back from New York,
01:05how are you going to look like a slum guy?
01:06So he gave me a brief, and then he said,
01:08look, we're just wasting time,
01:10you know, you're not what I'm looking for.
01:11So I went from his office to my house,
01:13packed a bag, went to the closest slum that I knew,
01:18went into the slum, hired a small hut,
01:23like a slum dwelling, right?
01:25And I lived there for 21 days, in that slum.
01:29My case is in Airtel.
01:30I am constantly following up
01:32with Ram Gopal Babu's office,
01:33give me one opportunity to come and see you, sir,
01:35I want to show you something.
01:38One fine day, he says, come.
01:40So I get a time slot.
01:42So I've grown this scraggly beard, right,
01:44for the photo shoot.
01:45I don't shave it, I keep the look on.
01:48I wear clothes that I actually bought,
01:50used clothes off a clothesline, right?
01:54I wear the clothes of the character.
01:56I wear the chappals, I put a bidi in my mouth,
01:58I carry the photographs as a bunch,
01:59and I'm like, live audition, right?
02:01He's not expecting it.
02:03I'm just going to walk in as the character.
02:05So I reach his main gate and the security guard stops me.
02:08And this guy's seen me three or four times before.
02:10He stops me and I'm like, yes.
02:12You know, I convinced him.
02:14Gave my name, Vivekananda, and he said, send him in.
02:16I look at this, you know, the dark tinted glass
02:20at the doors of the office,
02:22where you can see your own reflection.
02:24I look at my face, I'm like, wait, I'm looking to clean.
02:27And I look around and I see this plant pot.
02:30And I put my fingers in and I dig out dirt,
02:34earth from there.
02:35And I look in this two, you know,
02:37one way or door mirror thing, this glass,
02:40and I start to just, you know, dirty my face a little bit.
02:43Put a bidi in my mouth, spark the bidi.
02:46I'm dragging and I walk up to his office door.
02:50I say prayer, and then I just switch.
02:55I become the gangster, because it was a gangster's role.
02:58So I kick the door open.
03:00I swagger into his office.
03:02I pull up the chair without asking.
03:04I sit on the chair and then I take it one step forward.
03:06I put my feet on his desk like that.
03:09And I'm just giving him this death stare, right?
03:12Full intense attitude, smoking the bidi,
03:15blowing the smoke on him.
03:17And he's just looking at me.
03:20Who is this guy?
03:21This is not the guy I met.
03:23And then he starts to kind of just observe me and smile.
03:26And I say in Hindi, which is,
03:28hey, what are you looking at my face?
03:30Look at the photo.
03:31And I threw the bunch of photos on the table.
03:33He looks at me.
03:34He gets up, but I'm not giving up my character.
03:36I'm just like,
03:39giving attitude like I'm this big mafia don
03:41or something like that.
03:43He looks at me and he says,
03:45that's the craziest and best audition I've ever seen.
03:49He got the role.
03:50I'm still not giving up.
03:51Because I don't know, is he tricking me?
03:53Is he testing me?
03:54I'm like still.
03:55He's like, can you put that bidi out?
03:58You're messing up my office.
03:59I was like, sorry, sir.