Thats the greed in me as an actor: Sikandar Kher says he has no shame asking for work

“If you want something, you ask for it and
that’s normal and basic,” said Sikandar Kher while discussing his recent post
where he said that he “need work…can smile also.”

“Talking about that post, I always want
work. If I had my way, I will post every day saying I want work. In fact, I posted
that while I was at work. I came back to Mumbai and I got straight into the
shooting of the second season of another show so I am working but while I am
working, I want more work. That’s the greed in me as an actor and that’s
exactly what my post was so there is no regret,” he told Opoyi during the
telephonic conversation from Indonesia where he is currently shooting for one
of his projects. 

“…there is no shame in asking for work and
that’s how I have been brought up and that is how I go about in my life. I find
it absolutely necessary, normal and basic,” he added.

Sikandar, son of veteran actress and
politician Kirron Kher from her first marriage, made his acting debut in
2008 with the film ‘Woodstock Villa’. Later, he went on doing multi-starrer
films such as ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey’, ‘Players’, ‘Aurangzeb’, ‘Tere Bin
Laden: Dead or Alive’ and ‘The Zoya Factor’.

What makes Sikandar different from the
rest of Bollywood kids is that he never runs after lead roles and still makes
his mark- his work in ‘The Zoya Factor’ and the recently released web series
‘Aarya’ is a testimony of that. He received applauds for playing the
role of Daulat in Sushmita Sen’s comeback acting stint.

Talking about his choices of roles,
he said, “I was hearing an interview of a very known actor who had spoken sometimes back that his dream was never to become a star. So he
was asked that if his dream is not to become a star then what made him come to
Mumbai and work so he had a very interesting answer to that. He said that his
dream is to become the best actor ever and to keep honing his skills. That struck with me it  and also helped in
putting a lot of things in perspective for me also.”

Sikandar says that acting has always been
his passion and failures are just part and parcel of life.

“I have been working for 12 years and for
me, acting has always been a passion. There will always be gratitude to where I
am born and that is pure luck so I never had those stress or the pressure to go
out and have to earn to put food on my table or to think of rent and that lets me focus on other aspects a lot more. 

“Having said that, failures can make feel
you low but you know I have a brutally honest mother and she is like that
everywhere. She told me that listen you can act so there was a lot more belief
and faith that my parents have in my work, which also instills one’s beliefs in
yourself because it is coming from so close,” he said.

The actor says that he truly enjoys being
on sets and loves to explore different characters onscreen.

“I never had fix kind of thing that I
wanted to do therefore coming back to the choices of my roles, when I read
something and if I get excited about possibilities then I take it.

“I would love to play Daulat but at the
same time I would like to play ‘Mrs Doubtfire’. They are two completely
different spectrums of a human being so both of them excites me. I did a film
called ‘Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive’ which is till date, one of the greatest roles for a
foreign actor so these are the kind of things that excites me and in today’s
day and age with the kind of opportunity people including me are getting, I am
very excited about it,” said Sikandar and added that he is living his dream
with acting and he can’t complain.

Finally, his words on nepotism and
Sikandar has “nothing to say” on this.

“I do not want to change person’s thinking
….people should be kind to one another because we all are like that and giving
kindness to one another is only a beautiful thing and it doesn’t cost a penny,”
he said.