Faisal Malik: I get my due after 20 years

Ten years after actor-producer Faisal Malik left for Mumbai, his position of a cop in Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) introduced him into the mainstream. A decade later, portrayal of deputy pradhan in Panchayat 2 has modified every part for him.

“The phone has not stopped ringing since the show started streaming — be it Insta, Twitter, Facebook, message or calls — from across the globe. I started getting responses from the first season itself but then the story was being set-up. This season took it to another level, especially the last episode,” says the UPite.

Malik left Prayagraj to turn into an actor and has labored as assistant editor, promo producer, actuality present producer, line producer, earlier than producing exhibits equivalent to Smoke and Uninvited. He has additionally performed a cop within the movie Fraud Saiyaan and the present Black Widow.

“Now, I am getting good offers but some of them are in the same zone so I had to refuse three scripts. Pehle kaam nahi tha uski struggle thi, ab zyada kaam aane laga to uska dar hai. As an actor, I am getting my due after 20 years and I am going with the flow but will keep producing shows as that’s the vertical I have built in all these years,” says Malik.

He remembers how he by accident turned an actor. “I used to be within the manufacturing division when Anurag (Kashyap) mentioned, ‘jaldi se kapda baldo else location will go. Actually, the actor had not turned up and we were shooting the scene with Pankaj Tripathi — the cut-finger shot. Then, I got 4-5 scenes. My dialogue Ka baat kar rahe hain became a hit and there are so many memes on it and I saw people wearing it on a t-shirt. This time too, several memes are doing the rounds including Yeh ka likha hai bey and Kya and, band, sand, bol rahe ho.”

Malik credits director Deepak Mishra for bringing out the best in him. “This time, the pressure was huge as emotions were high. Comedy is a very tough thing but portraying a martyr’s father was an enormous accountability. We shot it in 5 days and the important thing was to crack it internally else it could not occur. I used to take a seat alone for hours for four-five days. But my coronary heart is aware of what number of feelings I needed to dig out to shoot it.” In the final pandemic wave, he misplaced six members of the family, together with his father.

On the appearing entrance, he has shot for Mahesh Narain’s Malayalam movie Ariappu the place he’s taking part in a Hindi-speaking manufacturing unit supervisor. “I have also shot a US-based director Raj Trivedi’s untitled comedy film with Amit Sial and Paresh Rawal where I am playing a money lender. Currently, I am shooting a comedy series by Mirzapur creator Puneet Krishna. I am also producing a series with Narain and have taken rights for a film on Dhani Ram Mittal, a fake judge.”

He provides that appearing is a matter of probability prefer it occurred in GOW. “I have never approached people for acting and have mostly worked with only close contacts and friends. It’s just destiny that my personality, physique, health and everything fitted in the character which is a contrast with my co-actor Raghubir Yadav. But, now I am focusing on losing some kilos.”