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At the Subedaar trailer launch when I met actor Aditya Rawal for the first time, a colleague was asking him about his negative role in the Amazon Prime Video film. Taking it further, I asked the young lad how he differentiated in his approach between acting on stage on the one hand and on screen in movies like Subedaar, Faraaz and Bamfaad or web series like Teerandaz, Bambai Meri Jaan and Daldal.
“I don’t think I get into such a distinction once the tonality of my role in a film or play is decided by the director!” he told me. “In films and web series, I am facing the camera while doing a sequence. But when on stage, I think of the entire audience as the camera! That’s all!” he smiled.
Aditya has also written several plays and co-written the films, Panipat and Dear Father. He started out in cinema in Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012) as the young version of his father, Paresh Rawal’s character. In the same year, he assisted director Umesh Shukla on OMG—Oh My God! featuring his father as the protagonist.
When I later told his mother, actress Swaroop Sampat Rawal, (Miss India Universe 1979, a model and educationist now, and the heroine of films like Nakhuda and the cult TV serial, Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi), whom I know for long, about meeting her son, she simply stated, “I hope he was interesting!”
Indeed! While other actors talk about “loud acting” and “throw of voice” as differentiating factors in their approaches, this young man kept it so simple— and subtle! After all, natural acting isn’t to be underestimated.
