EXCLUSIVE: Pratik Gandhi Reveals Why He Doesn’t Want To Judge His Characters Harshad Mehta, Gandhi; States, “Don’t Want To Sympathise…”

Pratik Gandhi opened up on portraying characters like Harshad Mehta and Gandhi. While promoting his web series, Saare Jahaan Se Accha, the actor sat for an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble. He reflected on his responsibility of playing such historic characters. Pratik revealed how he imagines playing Gandhi in his upcoming film. Scroll down to read more.

Pratik Gandhi On Playing Gandhi, Harshad Mehta

When asked about his responsibility of playing a historic character, Pratik Gandhi said, “The only moral responsibility I feel when I create these characters is that I constantly pray to God to help me not judge the character. I don’t want to judge the character, even after knowing the whole story about Gandhi’s life. The same goes for Vishnu’s character; I don’t want to judge. I also don’t want to put the character on a pedestal.”

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Taking the example of his character Harshad Mehta, the actor elaborated. He said, “When I create a character, I’m not supposed to judge it; I’m supposed to live it. Imagine, every person, whatever they did, never knew exactly what was going to happen next. In hindsight, we know the whole story, but when I’m creating a character, if I judge them by the end result, then I’m colouring the character right from the beginning. In that case, you won’t enjoy watching it, and it won’t work. If I play Gandhi with the thought in my mind that he was the Father of the Nation, the Mahatma, and then play Gandhi, it doesn’t work. It becomes a single-tone character, and most probably, that kind of portrayal goes only one way. So my only effort and concern is not to judge the character. I don’t want to sympathise with the character; I just have to empathise with the character and feel them at that point.”

Pratik was recently seen in Saare Jaahan se Accha and Phule.

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