Interesting to explore grey side: Madhur Mittal

Mumbai April 17 (IANS) Actor Madhur Mittal who plays a villain in the forthcoming Hindi thriller Maatr believes that people are grey and that its always interesting to explore that side on screen.

He had received a lot of appreciation for portraying the character of a baddie with such ease in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire and will now be seen essaying a darker character in Raveena Tandon-starrer Maatr.

Commenting on why he likes doing negative characters he said in a statement: I want to do roles where I can establish myself as an actor...the kind of roles where I have a lot to do as an actor a place to show my potential...

It makes me take up these dark roles. There is much more to play with it and I believe that we as people are not white or dark but grey and it s always interesting to explore that side.

In Maatr his character Apurva has no major reason to be bad.

He s the chief minister s son has the best of life yet the spawn of the devil plays its part on him he said.

Talking about preparation for his role he said: I started off by hanging out with the people in the city and remembering my old days because I ve stayed in Delhi for a year before coming to Mumbai.

So it helped me get with the lingo. Apart from that I read about the cases that have occurred in the past and watched a few documentaries as well.

Maatr deals with crime against women in society.

--IANS
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