Actually, many artists in the cinema world imitate or get inspired by their senior or ideal artists. However, very few artists accept this. Rang De Basanti and Chashme Bahoor actor Siddharth Narayan has no hesitation in admitting that he imitates veteran actor Kamal Haasan. Apart from considering Kamal Haasan as his idol, Siddharth also considers him as his guru. She has worked with Kamal Haasan in the pan India film Hindustani 2, releasing on July 12. Siddharth says, whatever wise words I have spoken in my interviews in the last 20 years, if you search about them on the internet media, then Kamal sir would have said those things before me.
I am just copying what he said. When I came into the industry, I had said that I want to become an actor and not a star. Actually I had learned this also from Kamal sir. He taught me that my first job is to become an actor and not to become a star or to be called a hero. The work of an actor is what the writer writes for him and the director makes him do it. People will applaud only if they want, but I don’t beg for applause and I don’t expect it in the first five minutes of my work.
