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Gully Boys' Vijay Varma: A tormented man, an interesting character
Updated On: 12 June, 2019 07:37 AM IST | | Mohar Basu
Unravelling nuances of Rashid as he browses through the pages of A Suitable Boy, Gully Boy's Vijay Varma on hopping aboard Mira Nair's adaptation
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Well abreast that they would play second fiddle to Ranveer Singh in the rap-drama Gully Boy, a crop of actors shone so bright in Zoya Akhtar's offering that they opened several doors for themselves in Bollywood. Unarguably one among them, Vijay Varma admits that his casting in Mira Nair's A Suitable Boy was an opportunity that the Singh- starrer afforded him.
"I first sensed Mira's interest [in me] when Zoya told me she had loved the film. I was surprised that Mira had seen it," says Varma, who had auditioned for a couple of parts for the six- hour BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel. "A few weeks later, I got a call from the casting agents. I have been roped in to play the role of Rashid, an Urdu teacher."
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