Nawazuddin Siddiqui says he will ‘shoot’ himself than be a superstar with one-tone acting: ‘I’m alive as long as I experiment’

“You learn everyday, it’s a new experience which helps enhance your craft. I can’t act the way I used to 20 years ago because today I carry the experience of those many years. It’s important to evolve constantly and with experience, your acting also changes. I can’t be stuck. If someone tells me that they’ll make me a superstar but I’ll have to do just one kind of role, I’ll shoot myself. I’ll quickly get bored, quit it and join some other field,” the actor said.

Nawazuddin feels it’s impossible for him to act one tone as he is always hungry to try something new. For the actor, he will do a project that satisfies the artiste in him even if he doesn’t get paid for the project.

“Superstar or whatever, I just can’t act one tone. I’ll always try to experiment, to do something new. Whether it’s a film of one rupee or Rs 15 crore, whether I get paid or not but I’m alive as long as I keep experimenting. Otherwise zinda reh ke bhi aadmi marr jata hai and I don’t want to do that.

“I just finished a film in Frankfurt, which had a unit of only 10 people. It’s not a big film, but a deep film. I’m also doing a big South film of several crores. It’s important to have this adjustment in your body, your thought process only then can you try becoming an actor. Otherwise it’s all images, something is attached with your name— someone is mega, someone something else. But my attempt is only to keep experimenting,” he added.

Directed by Kushan Nandy and jointly produced by Kiran Shroff and Naeem Siddiqui, Jogira Sara Ra Ra also stars Neha Sharma alongside Sanjay Mishra and Mahaakshay Chakraborty. The film, written by Ghalib Asad Bhopali, is scheduled to release on May 12.

It’ll be the second release of the year for Nawazuddin, who will be arriving in cinema halls first in filmmaker Sudhir Mishra’s Afwaah, scheduled to hit the screens on May 5.