Popular comedian Sunil Grover is back on the screen and this time he is not regaling audience in a TV show but playing pivotal and important characters in films. He will be seen in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Pataakha and Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat. However, it is his Pataakha character of Dipper Narad Muni that is making the most noise right now, especially after the release of the second trailer of the film. He plays the instigator or the ‘chingaari’ that causes tension between the two warring sisters who are the main protagonists of the film.
Sunil who is well known for playing female characters like Gutthi and Rinku Bhabhi on the small screen said during a recent interview to a leading daily that he does not approach his characters as a woman or a man and is not afraid of being typecast. He said, “If you are doing comedy, people expect you to be at your comic best always. They say, 'ek chutkula sunao bhai'. It happens, but I am okay with it. Yeh samay samay ki baat hai. I am an entertainer and it's my job to entertain them. And yes, people do typecast you. When I used to do radio and played a character called Sud, people told me that you have become Sud and now you can't play anything else. Then Gutthi happened to me and one of the show’s directors told me that the character was such a success that whatever I do, people will only call me Gutthi.”
He further added, “After Gutthi and then Rinku Bhabhi, they said that I have now done female characters, and people will not accept me as a man. But none of those things happened. I am doing male characters that are equally popular as my female characters. While picking up a character, I don't approach it as a woman or a man. I take it as a character. The character might have a gender by default, but for me, it's a character. I have also done a serious role in Gabbar, where I played a police officer. And people accepted me in that role as well. It's about your conviction, whether you believe you can do it."
Sunil is also well-known by the character Dr.Mashoor Gulati which earned him name and fame and was a pleasant change from the female characters he played on the small screen and is one of the most popular characters he played on televison.
