Siddharth on non-Hindi talking characters in movies: ‘There’s a habit of making them caricatures’

Siddharth, who’s awaiting the release of Disney+ Hotstar’s upcoming internet sequence Escaype Live, has talked concerning the portrayal of non-Hindi talking characters in movies. In an interview, he mentioned that if there are characters who’re non-Hindi talking, there’s a behavior of creating them caricatures. In the present, Siddharth performs a Kannadiga man who’s known as a Malayali by his colleague within the present’s trailer. Read extra: Paparazzo slams Siddharth’s ‘filthy mental state’ after his tweet to Saina Nehwal, announces boycott; she reacts

Siddharth opened up concerning the portrayal of non-Hindi talking characters in our movies with an interview to Indian Express.“From the age of comedians, (we had) actors like Mehmood, who made unrealistic and strange portrayals which were very popular at that time. But today, you feel odd watching them. There was Mithun Chakraborty playing some Krishnan Iyer and selling coconut water. In those days liberties were taken in the name of entertainment. All these are cliches. That’s not how people speak. Today, if I do anything like that to a Kannada or a Kashmiri character, social media will have a field day,” he mentioned.

Escaype Livemarks Siddharth’s return to Hindi-language content material. In 2019, he starred in Netflix’s dystopian drama Leila, directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar.

His new present, Escaype Live, is an Hindi-language science fiction thriller internet sequence created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary. It will premiere on 20 May on Disney+ Hotstar. Along with Siddharth, it stars Jaaved Jaaferi, Shweta Tripathi, Swastika Mukherjee, Plabita Borthakur and Waluscha De Sousa. The showrevolves round how social media has taken over lives.

Talking about Escaype Live, and why he took it up, Siddharth mentioned: “Escaype Live tells how social media is the same monster that impacts everybody, be it poor or rich, where you have a choice to react and how you do that.” In the present, Siddharth performs Krishna Rangaswamy, a personality he has described as fully reverse to him. He mentioned he needed to play the character with empathy.

Siddharth will subsequent be seen in Shankar’s upcoming Tamil magnum opus Indian 2, co-starring Kamal Haasan.