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Babil hopes his mother, Sutapa Sikdar, is proud of him, because so much of who he is–and what he thinks–finds roots in how he was raised. The actor, who was speaking to Indianexpress.com while promoting his next feature Friday Night Plan, pauses midway through the interview to wonder, “I hope I am doing enough for her”.
Friday Night Plan, scheduled to stream on Netflix on September 1, marks Babil’s second feature film after his 2022 debut Qala. While the Anvitaa Dutt directorial featured him in a supporting role, the latest Netflix film helmed by Vatsal Neelakantan will see him headlining it– his first.
In the trailer of the film, billed as a “heartwarming tale” of self-discovery and companionship, Babil’s character finds himself the center of attention of the entire school after he scores a goal in a football match. When asked how was he with female attention growing up, Babil joked, “I wanted it!”
The actor told Indianexpress.com that boys his age would be reluctant to be friends with him as he would talk about his “feelings” a lot, something which the girls never saw as a hindrance in their equation with him.
“I would get a lot of it (female attention) because I am a sensitive guy. Ladke muhe samajhte nahi the (the boys wouldn’t understand me). I wanted friends, I would go to the boys and be like, ‘Bhai mujhse dosti kar lo, maine kya kiya hai?’ They would tell me, ‘You talk about your feelings a lot, just play football man. Football ke beech rone kyu lagta hai!’
“So because of that, I became friends with girls. But then the boys started getting jealous! I am like, you guys first abandoned me, so what do you want? I would get bullied a lot back then.”
Babil said a lot of his understanding and treatment of the opposite gender was a departure from how boys would think or talk about women. Which is why he always felt closer to girls, than boys.
“I have also never been the guy who goes out there to ‘get’ women. This whole idea of ‘getting’ women–as boys generally say–is absurdly wrong. If you talk like that, subconsciously it starts playing a role in how you think about women. You don’t ‘get’ women, you partner with them, and not necessarily and only in a romantic way. May be this is why I was closer to women… I am a Mumma’s boy. I hope she is proud of me. I hope I am doing enough for her,” he added.
Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, Friday Night Plan also stars Medha Rana, Aadhya Anand, Ninad Kamath. The film, co-written by Vatsal Neelakantan and Sapan Verma, will release on September 1.
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