Sonu Sood has been winning hearts ever since he resorted to help migrant workers reach their native towns during the Coronavirus Lockdown. The actor emerged as a national hero for helping stranded workers, students and other people reach their homes while the entire nation was grappling under the pandemic. He even launched a hotline number for people to reach him and followed it up with an app that is going to help unemployed migrant workers find jobs in their own home towns. Sonu’s exemplary work earned him a lot of accolades not only from common people but from political leaders as well as his colleagues. Hashtags like #SonuSoodRealHero trended for days on end on Twitter.
Now, in an exclusive video interview with PeepingMoon.com, Sonu opened up about his philanthropic work , the accolades coming his way and the whole ‘insider vs outsider’ debate prevailing in Bollywood. During the interview, Sonu was asked about the clarion call that a biopic be made on him. To this, the actor said, “There are some really good writers who have approached me but I don’t know whether I have done anything really good in life that is worth being writing a biopic on. It is a bit embarrassing but there are a few who have said they are writing and they will get back to me. I still don’t believe that I have done something that can be put into a film but there are a few parts that I have lived in the last couple of years.”
When asked whether he will step into his own shoes and play the lead in the biopic, Sonu said, “I can and I would love to do it. I don’t think there is anyone else who can play me better than me.” Sonu was also asked about the nepotism debate and whether he would be willing to launch his own son if he wanted to join the industry. To this, he said, “Anyone who is connected to the industry will ensure that their children have easy access to the fraternity. Everybody wants to help their kin do less struggle. My father had a cloth shop in Punjab, all I had to do was go there and sit in the shop and never had to undergo the struggle my father did of customer relations, buyers-sellers dealings, all I had to do was take over the entire thing established by my father, so the industry is also like that.”
He further added, “Tomorrow if my son wants to get into the industry I would try to get him access which I never had, he will have an extra edge. I remember there was a big director who was shooting at Borivali National Park, I wanted him to show my pictures and he was like come to office later on and show my aide. I told him that you’re sitting free right now just take a moment and see but he was like ‘I am not making any picture,’ and he did not even share two minutes of his time to look at my pictures when I had already done two films in South. Several years later when he came back to me with a script, I was not very keen to do his film and reminded him about the incident he said, ‘No no this can’t happen’. It wasn’t that I was being revengeful, but the script did not interest me and I told him that. However, what I want to say is that time matters a lot. If you have to make it go through the grind, go through your struggle and that process is very important. I am going to be there for my son as every parent is but I want them to have their own journey which is very important.”
(Transcribed By: Vandana Srivastawa)
