Jaideep Ahlawat

“I love dancing and can very well manage Bollywood dancing.”

“In my village, Kharkara, 20 km from Rohtak, I would work in our fields of sugarcane, wheat and paddy while dreaming of the day I would join the army, and receive a hero's welcome every time I came home on leave. In our part of the world, a soldier is a star.”

“When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.”

“It's an extraordinary story told with simplicity. 'Raazi' is about people who put the country before anything else.”

“I am okay with the fact that my work reaches out to the people.”

“I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.”

“I was lucky to be a student of FTII, Pune.”

“When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there's a well-defined character written, then the attempt is to be as honest to the material as possible.”

“When the coronavirus-positive cases were 500 in the country, you ordered the shops to shut down, and now when the tally has crossed 50,000 you are opening them. I don't understand the logic.”

“Hathi Ram's journey intrigued me. He is a very vulnerable character. I was never offered such a role of a man who is a failure in life and is desperate to prove himself. It was a good change for me to play someone with such a nice arc and so many shades to his personality.”

“Every one wants to play a lead, be it negative or positive and I'm no exception.”

“I am a dog and a cat lover; doesn't matter which animal it is but dogs are cuter at times.”

“Most of the characters I've been offered have been very dominating and self-assured, maybe because of the way I look.”

“Hathiram Choudhary is a vulnerable, intense and deep character. Like every common man, he just wants to prove himself and better himself. But he is also bound by his philosophies.”

“The mode of work as well the reach of all media are different.”

“It feels good to get new opportunities.”

“It's not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.”

“Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.”

“Whenever I read a script or sign a film, I don't see whether he is a bad guy or a good guy. I see how much the character is contributing to the story? How much is the importance of the character in taking the story forward? And what new I would be able to learn and what new I would be able to try in that?”

“I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.”