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Riteish caught in a comic swamp
Dhamaal will be his fourth comedy in a row. He seems to be enjoying his comic stint. Riteish happy with multistarrers
What is happening to Bollywood? fourth comedy in a row
After
Masti
, which actually triggered off the current comic wave, Indra Kumar released box office dud
Pyare Mohan
with Viveik Oberoi and Fardeen Khan. And he now teams up again with his
Masti
hero Riteish Deshmukh for
Dhamaal
.
"It would be my fourth comedy in a row. In Masti I played a total duffer. In Kyaa Kool Hain Hum I was extra-savvy. Now in Dhamaal I hope to be mean-comic. A real glint-in-the-eye kind of funny is what I want to play," Riteish says.
The young actor cheers up at the mention of his favourite release Bluffmaster.
"It was very slick but not at the cost of losing out on the non-metro audience. Abhishek was supposed to do my role. Then he stepped into the other role. I had to opt out of a project to accommodate Bluffmaster. But it was worth it.
"Rohan Sippy is a director I wanted to work with. And Abhishek is a cool co-star. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him in Naach. We had loads of fun in Bluffmaster though it isn't a comedy. I keep telling everyone my romantic lead in Bluffmaster was Abhishek."
"My next release Apna Sapna Money Money is again a comedy. This time Sangeeth Sivan isn't doing anything risqué. I admit, I was a trifle uncomfortable saying some of the lines in Masti and Kyaa Kool Hain Hum. But in Money Money Money there's nothing to make me squirm."
For now Riteish seems to be caught in the comic swamp.
"But I've done a very serious segment of Ram Gopal Varma's Darna Zaroori Hai with Mr Amitabh Bachchan. I was so nervous. According to the script, he was supposed to shout so hard at me that I was doubly shaken. But guess what? My character actually got to shout back at him!"
Riteish is happy enough with his progress report.
"I started with a south remake, the college romance Tujhe Meri Kasam, which was a blockbuster in Bihar. But in Mumbai you are only as successful as your box office collections in the city. I had to start from scratch. I think I've created a niche for myself."
