he was outmaneuveredudaybhan rathod as visualised by the filmmakers in this production sketch your character in the film is he battling for an evil empire or is it more layeredom the director invented a very colourful villain not a villain an antagonist aurangzeb entrusts him to defend the fort against tanhaji the kind of back story that om gave it and the kind of madness he created it was a very new experience as an actor we approached it in a very different way from how i have done anything before and i have a tendency to try and underplay things and he was like no i want you to be much louder which was very frightening because thats new for me and the hair and the clothes and nachiket barve who has done costumes for the film really made it into a spectaclei dont think it is the evil empire but he is a slightly deranged character that is for suredid you enjoy playing a deranged character well i have never played one quite so deranged before and it was difficult i told my mother and she said you be careful dont be too loud and make a fool of yourself it can be quite dangerous to be like that if i am doing something else kind of healthy and normal then it is great fun as a departure but i dont think i would like to do this very often it is a little dark to have that kind of but it was fun it is basically an energetic happy character what is deranged about it is that his energy level and his happiness level is not quite suited to the seriousness of what is happening it was great fun i remember feeling very happy especially after the extremely exhausting experience of lal kaptaan to just go to set in a very controlled environment perform somethingcould you have pulled off a role like this in the era when you were doing something like a salaam namastelaughs no i dont think so not at all this was i think the most seasoned kind of acting it was like breaking down a wall and finding yourself in a new room i am really pleased with it it is something that the director and i found togetheryou had opted not to use pataudi with your name when you first set out as an actor primarily if i remember correctly so that in case it didnt work out the family name would not be besmirched do you ever plan to formally bring the pataudi name into cinema in your credits or as something beyondyou know i do think about that when i am with aditya chopra and i see how he has his production or when i was with the rajshris and i saw how people respect that production i think it is also because how in the 90s people used to differentiate between work and home and film people and