Nawazuddin Siddiqui: An ambitious actor and a reluctant star
The rags to riches story of one of Bollywood’s most unconventional heros
It takes Nawazuddin Siddiqui just 20 minutes to get ready for the shoot in a patch of open space in the heart of the Versova Koliwada (fishing village). Unfortunately, the place stinks. I wonder if he’ll back out. But no. Nawaz walks right in, does exactly as the photographer orders, and continues to do what he needs to do despite the scorching heat and his not exactly summery designer suit.

“ I have not changed... I still wear similar clothes to what I wore when I was a junior artist!”

“The more I see that [glamorous] life from close proximity, the more convinced I am that I don’t want that for myself... I find that lifestyle very fake ”

“When I came to Mumbai, nobody could have imagined a Bollywood hero who was just 5 foot 6 inches tall, dark complexioned, and looked the way I do...So I didn’t really have a reason to be delusional about my prospects ”

“We were asked to be part of the crowd...The idea was to do the role, but not to show our faces. We needed the money, but didn’t want our colleagues from NSD to spot us doing these ‘crowd’ roles!”


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