It's gotten quite deep into his psyche.. and Siddharth 'Striker' is finding it immensely tough to shake off the persona of Surya, his 'tapori' character in the Chandan Arora helmed film.
The carrom centric opus has taken over Siddharth with a sweep."I spoke in the same 'tapori' manner to my mom, who got really upset. She warned me to speak normally. But I was really finding it difficult to make the switch back to speaking normally."
Chandan Arora's STRIKER may not be your typical Bollywood masala fare, but it certainly has what it takes to appeal to the Hindi film audience, and this confidence emanated from none other than the lead actor, Siddharth, while talking to India's leading trade expert.
While replying to a query as to why he chose Chandan Arora as the director of his launch as a solo hero in Bollywood, Siddharth replied that he was very happy and lucky to have Chandan as his director, and felt that working with the director of MAIN MADHURI DIXIT BANNA CHAHTI HOON and MAIN MERI PATNI AUR WOH has been an organic experience for him. Siddharth went on to term STRIKER as a classic, but humbly added that the fact that he has termed his own film a classic may sound arrogant, but that is because he had seen the film and hence the confidence!. He also made a proclamation (which he says might sound pompous!) saying that when his career will be analyzed in the future, STRIKER will be counted as the film which made him!
Well, that's called confidence, and after an incredible success rate of nine out of ten solo hits down south, its time for Siddharth to strike and make it a tenth with STRIKER, which is all set to release this Friday.
Siddharth is an actor who uses wrong finger to play carom from childhood; only after he started practice did he realize that how all experts' play.
Like all other games even carom has its own set of rules to follow. While preparing for STRIKER, Siddharth, who had to practice for hours to learn carom and become an expert. Apparently Siddharth was facing a problem while preparing for the role and the problem was that he used to hit the striker with the wrong finger.
Since he was good at the game, Chandan Arora wanted his each and every move to be accurate and so he decided to get Siddharth trained by a professional before they could start shooting for his carom sequences. To their surprise they came to know that 90% of the carom experts, including the one who was summoned in to train Siddharth actually played with the wrong finger. After undermining this fact there was no stopping to Siddharth and he ended up giving some exceptionally professional shots.
Says Siddharth, "Since childhood I used to play carom with the wrong finger but never bothered to correct it since the wrong finger always helped me play well, unfortunately while shooting for STRIKER, the wrong finger habit cropped up as one of the major concerns and Chandan brought in a carom expert to train me. When I sat down to play with him did I realize that most of the players play with the wrong finger... This helped me cut down on one of my biggest worries."
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