All eyes are on Abhishek Bachchan who plays the baddie in Shah Rukh Khan’s action thriller ‘King’ that releases this year and, reportedly, in which he engages the Bollywood Badshah in a bare body fight like he has never done on screen before. Admitting on the ‘BenchMARK Conversations’ podcast on PeepingMoon.com that this was his first full-blown negative character (in the 2010 action adventure ‘Raavan’ he played a grey role), the actor said that the lines in filmmaking were blurred and there was no more the ‘Best Villain Award’ because the audiences were seeing actors as people whereas the actors themselves were looking at their characters and asking what was his importance in the story.

Talking to PeepingMoon.com’s Mark Manuel in the podcast presented by Reliance Digital, when asked what was the thought behind accepting a grey role, Abhishek Bachchan said, “Those days are gone when an actor asked ‘How many scenes do I have?’ or ‘How many punches do I get to throw in the action sequences?’ Actors have changed, evolved, today it’s about – is there something that I want to do? For me, it’s about what’s inspiring me at that point of time. And that throughout my character has always been the deciding factor. I ask myself – is this something I want to be a part of? It just can’t be a commercial decision.”

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