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After Darlings and Dahaad, Vijay Varma has become Bollywood’s favourite bad guy. The actor, who made his earliest moves in the film business with 2012’s Chittagong and then broke new ground with a lead role in 2013’s Monsoon Shootout, found fame after he appeared in Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy. But in the last couple of years, Vijay’s career choices have fetched him a lot of appreciation. After playing a cruel husband in Darlings and a serial killer in Dahaad, Vijay has been getting many offers to play murderers. In a recent chat, the actor said that he gets multiple offers to play serial killers, but he has been refusing them all.
In a chat with Film Companion, Vijay said that the Darlings character Hamza attracted him because he had no progression through the film; he was horrible from start to finish. “It’s not like I am saying no to bad guys, I want them to surprise me. Darlings… Hamza surprised me. I’ve never seen a man like that on screen,” he said, and added, “He started as an a**hole, he continued to be an a**hole, he died an a**hole. So there’s no arc, per se. That was very interesting for me.”
“I tell them I am done with my serial killers,” he said, and mentioned that much like Anthony Hopkins, he also never wants to play a serial killer again. Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. He also won an Oscar for his role in that film.
Vijay Varma was last seen in Sujoy Ghosh’s segment in Lust Stories 2. He will next be seen with Kareena Kapoor and Jaideep Ahlawat in Ghosh’s Jaane Jaan.
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