Quotes from Tahir Raj Bhasin

I like to spend time with senior actors before going on set to break the ice. On set, I just look at them as co-actors.

It's a big responsibility to play an icon like Sunil Gavaskar.

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that I have at hand.

Chhichhore' is the toughest film that I have done.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

Internationally if you see, 'Narcos' and 'House of Cards' are all very dark shows with very dark characters. The audience may hate the character but they will love the actor.

My father was in the Air Force, so I travelled all over India. I was born in Delhi.

It is important to experience everything. If you haven't travelled in life, if you haven't had friends, if you haven't been a Chhichhora, then you haven't done anything in life.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.

Grey characters don't only mean broody characters. A totally smitten lover boy can be equally grey if written that way.

I have always been extremely health conscious and I have never smoked and don't encourage the habit of smoking.

There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.

If you want to live a fulfilling life, then you have to do something that motivates you and also earns you a living.

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a sport, then you realise that being athletically fit is a very different kind of fitness.

When I'm doing a part, I'm not coming with any baggage of who did what. I looked at 'Force 2' as a fresh film. It's a new story and a new director.

I'm a 90s child and I have grown up on a staple diet of David Dhawan films, Baazigar, Rangeela and Dil Chahta Hai.

My first film was very static.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what I read in books. Storytelling would always appeal to me, I would take part in poetry reciting, dramatics, choreography and debates. There was this fascination for performance, which finally culminated in a professional sphere.