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Sanjay: Before OTT, getting meaty roles was tough for middle-aged male actors
Updated On: 31 May, 2021 08:21 AM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Sanjay draws the example of the hit dance number "Dilbar dilbar", made memorable by Sushmita Sen in their 1999 release "Sirf Tum", to underline how he needs a different kind of roles now that films may not have for him.
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Sanjay Kapoor. Pic/Shadab Khan
Sanjay Kapoor was launched in Bollywood by elder brother Boney Kapoor in the much-hyped 1995 reincarnation drama, "Prem", and then worked with some of the biggest actresses of the era including Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla and Mamta Kulkarni in early films produced by top banners. Boney and Anil Kapoor`s youngest brother, however, could not maintain the impetus despite a regular flow of releases and had to wait for the recent rise of the OTT culture to get a platform to reinvent his career.
"I have been in the business for quite some time so there are different phases that my career has gone through. We always talk about playing character roles after a certain age but till a few years ago, getting a meaty role w sough even for a middle-aged man, except for a few male actors. I am at this age where I cannot play the hero in a film and not too old to play a grandfather. And a father`s role usually came with limited opportunity," Sanjay told IANS.
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