One of the most acclaimed actors in the Hindi film industry, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, recently opened up about his love for acting in a YouTube interview on Unfiltered by Samdish. He said he would never ask for work and would rather sell his belongings to fund his projects.
Nawaz said, “If a day like that comes when I have no work, I don’t even have the strength to go and ask for it. I can’t come to you and say, ‘Give me work.’ I will sell my house, my shoes and everything and make a film on my own. I am so confident about that. I can’t do that in my life. Acting is important, but acting in films is not. I will do it on the streets, trains or bus.”
He detailed it is not demeaning to him to ask for work, instead he would rather not ask. In the same interview, Nawaz also shared when he had a stammering problem and how it created insecurity. He said, “When I am really angry, the stammering comes back. It went away in 2005 and 2006. Maybe it was there because of insecurity, and then when I achieved some things in life, it went away.”
On the work front, Nawaz recently made his Bollywood debut with Sailesh Kolanu’s ‘Saindhav.’ He plays Vikas Malik, an unhinged businessman in the Venkatesh Daggubati-starrer. He has ‘Section 108’ in the pipeline. The movie stars Arbaaz Khan and Regina Cassandra.