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.
{{/usCountry}}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.
{{/usCountry}}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.