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Masala movies are not for me: Samrat Charkabarti

The American actor, who loves watching Bollywood movies, has inhibitions in acting for a ‘typical B movie.

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American actor Samrat Charkabarti who plays pivotal roles in latest release Vishwaroopam and Midnight’s Children wants to do films with universal appeal.

“While I love watching Bollywood films, masala movies are not for me. I want to do contemporary movies, that appeal to the global audience. Movies with special messages and that show various kinds of realities is what I would really like to do.”

Samrat plays the role of Wee Willie Winkie, Shiva’s father in Midnight’s Children (archival of the protagonist Saleem) Samrat excitedly says, “I had to undergo a complete transformation for this role! Wee Willie Winkie is a poor man who makes his living by singing. He is almost a Raj Kapoor kind of a character.

Even though he entertains, he goes through a very rough life.” Samrat, who is also a musician, and has a acapella group, learnt to play the accordion especially for this role. He would lock himself in the hotel room during the shooting of the movie and play the accordian for hours.

“It was the perfect character for me. I do a lot of music and I could easily wease into the role. Ironically Deepa did not know that I played music, when she offered me the role at the Abu Dhabi film festival during the screening of my previous film Bombay Summer.”

The multi-talented actor, also composed a song for the latest release Midnight’s Children. “They needed a melody for a lullaby that reoccurs throughout the movie. When Deepa found out about my inclination towards music, she asked me to compose a tune for the song that Seema Biswas sings in the movie.” He is also seen in Vishwaroopam, playing the role of a wealthy business man, Deepak.

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