With him, you see is what you get, there are no frills, no trappings of celebrity, no sugar coated dialogues to inveigle you to his side. That is Randeep Hooda-candid and upfront, take him or leave him. He won’t budge from his trajectory. the industry seem to have temporarily left him. It is his blunt ways what he is best known for, that seems to have cost him his career, and he blames his genes for that. “I am a Jat and if you ever see two Jats talking, you will assume that they are fighting with each other because we are such loud people. So, you can’t blame me for being brash,” he says.
Neither is he very affected by all the negative talk he’s attracted over the years. His theory, “everyone gets bithced about atsome point or other ad so do I. I’m not someone special.” he is aware though that his politically incorrect ways may have derailed his otherwise promising career. After all, he entered the filmland with a bang with dilms like DevD, that hd everyone sitting up and noticing this Haryanvi-on-the-block. “I was stupid not to capitalise on the success of D,” he drawls addding that he should have done a Rang De Basanti after D. The fact is that there are very few actors who can carry films on their shoulders, him included.
He’s glad for the knocks he’s recieved in his short stint in the film industry though. They’ve made him down to earth, balanced and grounded as a person, he claims. He has realsied that when things work out, it’s superb, but one should not get too carried away with success. Also it helps that he has finally reealsied that it was his own conduct that was responsible for the way his career course has run. He candidly admits,” I am one of the actors who could have been much more successful in terms of media popularity and marketability, but I suffered due to my own choices.”
Also, his mistakes inculde a fall out with his mentor Ram Gopal Verma. Its clear that Randeep is fast growing up in many ways. He’s learnt the showbiz natter and is keen to make amends. he feels he would have been better off had he built personal relationships that would benefit him later. He says he realises now that you need to be extra polite and you need to do things that give you stragetic alliances with people. Randeep points out that the most important thing he has learnt here is that it does not matter waht you do but it matters who you know.