Talking about Ashutosh Gowariker’s period saga, Dheer said, “It was a very bad experience for me, to the point that I told my father that I’d entered the wrong line.”
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Nikitin Dheer is best known for his role as Thangabali in Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s Chennai Express. In an interview with Siddharth Kanan, he recalled his bad experience of working in Hrithik Roshan’s Jodhaa Akbar.
The actor revealed, “As an artist, I didn’t have fun working on the film. It was a very bad experience for me, to the point that I told my father that I’d entered the wrong line, and that I’d rethink my life. I worked on my physique for the film, I trained for months in Urdu. I shot for more than 100 days.”
He added, ” For example, I especially flew back from Istanbul to dub for the film. I must’ve made 90 phone calls to figure out what the plan is, but nobody from the production answered my calls. The third day, I was supposed to return to Istanbul, and that’s when I’m told that they’ve got somebody else to dub my part. It made me very angry. And there are so many incidents like this.”
On no offers post Chennai Express
Everyone kept giving me some or other reason or stories. They would tell me you are too tall, you are too fair, then you shouldn’t remove your beard and should have a beard as it intimidates the leading man. I kept waiting, and I did not get any offers at all. I thought I would get at least from the South if not from the Hindi film industry, but there was no work.
