Udaan gave wings to Ram

Actor Ram Kapoor, who earned critical acclaim playing young Rajat Barmecha’s sympathetic uncle in Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, says the movie has landed him prestigious projects in Bollywood.

Actor Ram Kapoor, who earned critical acclaim playing young Rajat Barmecha’s sympathetic uncle in Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, says the movie has landed him prestigious projects in Bollywood. “Thanks to Udaan, I got four projects — Sooraj Barajtya’s Love U Mr Kalakaar, Saif Ali Khan’s Agent Vinod, Karan Johar’s Short Term Shaadi and Mahesh Godiyal’s Maaee with Asha Bhosale,” says Ram.

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Speaking about his roles in the movies, he says it was a welcome change from the similar kind of roles offered to him on television in the last few years. "Television has made me what I am today. But now, I have chosen film projects where I can show different sides of me.

Kapoor will be seen playing a Russian mafia don in Agent Vinod, while in Short Term Shaadi, he will try his comic timings with Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak Shah.