while most of his contemporaries are eager to earmark their spaces vicky kaushal doesnt wish to define his territory and thats his biggest strength to slip into a lead or supporting role in any kind of film and make it believable ahead of the release of anurag kashyaps manmarziyaan the actor talks to bt about relationships and the choices he has made in his career excerptsin three years youve played eight distinctly different characters is that a conscious attempt to avoid getting labelled i look for stories that are different because that is how i will grow as a performer also thats how i will survive in this industry when you dont have a starry launch like i had a backdoor entry with masaan you have to devise a way to survive my initial films were not the choices i made the only choice was to display my versatility and prove my worth i am not saying that i was confident about what i was doing i was also discovering myself as an actor but i am glad i could do it there were directors who trusted me without those opportunities i wouldnt have been able to carve this path even if i wanted to its an additional burden to make space for yourself in the industry but if people do that for you by appreciating your work you wont be under any pressure to protect it it will stay as long as you do your job well acting between action and cut is temporary the result is permanentyour role in manmarziyaan that of a dj vicky sandhu seems to be an easybreezy one but maybe its not especially for you who appears to be a simple boy from a modest punjabi family was it tough turning into vicky sandhu laughs i am a robbie abhishek bachchans character in manmarziyaan in real life very ramji types but i am happy to play the reckless carefree and commitmentphobic vicky sandhu on screen the trailer shows me wearing my pants low with my underwear showing that was my idea because i knew what sort of a character vicky is he has blue hair and is into a certain kind of music so for him his underwear being visible is a part of his mad and impulsive personality in fact i told the person handling costumes to get me the wackiest underwear available its his eccentricity that drew me to the character hes directionless but very sure that no one can love rumi taapsee pannus character more than him vicky sandhu is my alter ego and thats why i had a ball of a time playing him if you play punjabi music right now you will see the shift from vicky kaushal to vicky sandhu ill start dancing on the table its like superman and clark they are the same people one hidden beneath the other people like anurag kashyap know this about me and so he just told me