Randeep Hooda
Randeep Hooda
Randeep Hoodais an Indian film actor who appears in Hindi-language films. Hooda was born into a Jat family in Rohtak, Haryana; he studied at the Motilal Nehru School at Sonepat, where he began acting in school productions, and later studied for a postgraduate degree in human resource management in Melbourne, Australia. He returned to India and began modelling and acting in stage productions...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 August 1976
CountryIndia
change explore likes playing roles
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
comic played role
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
approach changing focusing role weaknesses
The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
roles sooner-or-later dues
I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
run school studies
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
beauty commercial deepest huge reach sooner understand
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
case people prefer repetition though
People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
cannot famous lose sleep wants
Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
best earned known sexiest
I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
industry ladies men race rider seen superior though women
I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
widely
I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
hard overrated people pompous underrated
I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
arms bare boy difficult easy fire gun guy innocence tears tough vulnerable works
It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.