Divyenndu Sharma on playing gangster and cop

“I read the script and I knew that this would be very hard to navigate this character. He’s someone who really feels trapped in whatever he’s doing. He wants to achieve much more in life. He’s not someone who’s very settled and has achieved a lot like in Agni. He was already a star there. Now this guy wants to be someone. He comes from a small town. He doesn’t want to relate with that. He thinks that he’s meant for bigger things. If I have to give you an example, what I did is, you know, his name is Ratan and I was coming from a small town, someone who wants to achieve; could he be interested in astrology? I was like, ‘Okay, let’s try and delve into it.’ So Ratan comes from Tula Rashi. And then I researched what Tula Rashi people like to wear, the stones and everything. So I came up with this like a yellow sapphire. So if you see- Ratan wears a yellow sapphire in his right hand finger. So that’s my thing that, et, let him wear something like that, which subtly shows that, by hook or crook, he wants to achieve what he wants to achieve.”

“Interesting, very interesting. Lovely question. It’s very hard. It’s very hard to answer this one. It’s not easy to play either, honestly. Let me put it this way. It’s not easy to play a character. You have to be constantly thinking whether you are justifying the character in the right way or not. When the morality goes out of the window, what’s the line that you want to cross? It’s like different sides of the same coin. In a given situation, if someone gives you a certain authority, you would, behave a certain way. And if there is a lack of authority, you would behave a certain way. They both go hand in hand there. It’s very, very difficult to actually pick a side.”