Sunny Deol, who will soon be seen in Anil Sharma’s Gadar 2, has been promoting his upcoming film extensively and in one of the recent interviews, the actor spoke about Bollywood camps and the pretentious nature of people in the industry. Sunny said that even though he comes from a film family, he has never been a part of any camp, and they have “never been a camp family”.
In a chat with Puja Talwar, Sunny said that back when he was planning to launch Bobby in the movies in the 1990s, he spoke to many filmmakers but for some reason, no one was ready to come on board. “I remember going to all the directors even when I was launching Bobby, nobody was willing to join hands with us,” he said. Bobby made his debut with the 1995 film Barsaat which was directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. At the time, Rajkumar and Sunny were close collaborators and had worked together in films like Ghayal and Damini.
Sunny spoke about the pretentious nature of many in the film industry and said, “Everybody comes and hugs you and meets you like they love you so much but all of that is fake. So many people call me paaji, I say please don’t call me paaji because you don’t understand the meaning of paaji. There is a respect for older brother.” He added, “There are so many things that have been going on, will keep going on because they are such good actors in life, maybe not on the screen.”
In the same conversation, Sunny said that even in his early days he worked with different filmmakers and was never a part of any camp. The actor added that he did work with filmmakers like Rahul Rawail, JP Dutta because there would be “passion, earnesty and honesty” in their work. “Unfortunately, you work with someone, and then they move on. That is the truth of this film industry,” he said.
Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 releases in theatres on August 11.
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