Ronit, the bad dad

The actor is set to play an intense role of a bad father in Deepa Mehta’s Winds Of Change.

After being applauded for his turn as an abusive father in Udaan, actor Ronit Roy is playing a bad dad again in Deepa Mehta’s Winds Of Change. The 45-year-old will essay the role of Ahmed Sinai, the father of protagonist Saleem Sinai in the movie adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker-prize winning book Midnight’s Children.

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Roy reportedly replaced Irrfan Khan in the movie. “Once again I am playing an intense role of a bad father. I have completed the shooting in Sri Lanka. It was great fun,” says Roy. The actor, who became a household name with his turn as Mr Bajaj in Kasauti Zindagi Ki, now wants to divide his time between small screen and cinema. “I plan to do only two-three movies a year. This way I will have sufficient time to do television,” he says. Roy plays a lawyer KD Pathak in Sony TV’s Adalat and says he does not mind being typecast. “When a director thinks of a character he automatically thinks of a name which he can relate to. Being typecast is not as bad as it is made out to be,” he says.