Quotes from Abhimanyu Singh

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.

Karthi is such a wonderful human being. He is always focused towards improvisations and keeps working on it.

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

It does take a lot of time to establish yourself with your own hard work.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

Sandalwood is a force to reckon with. People from all over are investing time and money here because the films have good reach and reap good rewards as well.

Rohit Shetty liked my acting in the movie 'Theeran,' which released in 2017. He believed that I would justify the role of a baddie in 'Sooryavanshi.'

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

People in the South are very organised and are thorough professionals besides being good paymasters. They are very disciplined and start and wrap up work on time.

In Bollywood, it is common for shoots to have unexpected delays and go well into the night, but shoot schedules in the South are mostly wrapped up by evening, unless absolutely required.

I'd have gone berserk if I hadn't met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.

I was introduced to the world of films by Manoj Bajpayee and trained under theatre actor Makrand Deshpande.

10 Endradhukulla' is a thriller and the characters are all on the run. The film travels from South India traversing through the North, to the mountains where the climax takes place. Mine is a different kind of character; he is very suave and stylish and only later it is discovered that he is not what he looks like.

I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.

I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.

Luckily, 'Rakta Charitra' did well in the South and I started getting a lot offers from the Tamil and Telegu film industry.

In 'Rakht Charitra,' I had equal screen space to that of the lead.

Srideviji is a powerhouse performer. She has been my favourite actor since my college days and to share screen space with her is a dream come true for me.

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

I'm not the type who will go and ask people for roles.

As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I'm happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.