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Maverick?s mantras
Rahul Bose?s forthcoming films include Idol, opposite Hong Kong?s Maggie Q, and Vinta Nanda?s The White Noise.
Appearances can be deceptive. Rahul Bose, despite our specially designed photo-op, actually hates the rains, so what if he flashed a plastic smile to a drenched Kareena Kapoor in Chameli as she waltzed to the number Bhaage re mann.
“I just hate the rains. They make me feel depressed. I seem to carry the rains with me wherever I go. May be someone should send me to a drought-affected area next!” he quips.
Rahul was in town recently to participate in the interactive Med Mosaic Nights with Tarun Tejpal, hosted at The Olive Kitchen & Bar in association with Absolut Vodka.
Stardom bothers him. “I feel embarrassed to have the spotlight trained on me, considering that I am not yet 50 and don’t have such a huge body of work to boast of,” he says.
He has wrapped up Vinta Nanda’s The White Noise, a film set in the “world of television” and flies off to New York in time for the US release of his directorial flick, Everybody Says I’m Fine. A series of lectures on communal harmony at various American universities will follow.
He is always ready to spring a few surprises on you. For instance, as an actor he is still “uncomfortable” about being photographed, and even if he carries a laptop with him everywhere (“I use it to write scripts”), he hates surfing the Net (“haven’t surfed in two years”). He’d rather read an Amitav Ghosh novel.
Mainstream movies are no longer a lure. “They won’t expand my horizon as an actor. So, for me they are a waste of time,” he explains.
