Don’t feel like a hero, call me an actor: Rajkummar Rao

TIL Desk Bollywood/ Actor Rajkummar Rao says he always feels like an actor and not a “hero”, a term he prefers should be reserved for Army people fighting at the border. Rao says he has never tried to be a hero nor does he understand what it means.

“I don’t know how a hero feels, honestly. I feel like an actor, I wanted to be an actor. I always want to feel just like an actor. I don’t know this ‘hero’ term. If someone comes to me with a script and says ‘sir this hero…’ I’m like ‘is there a name or he is just called a hero?’

“We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes we are just doing our job,” the actor told reporters last night at the trailer launch of his upcoming horror-comedy “Stree”.

Rao, who has emerged as one of the most versatile actors in Bollywood in recent times, said the definition of “hero” has undergone a change today with cinema.  “The speed at which cinema is changing, the definition of hero is also changing. Even a big superstar like Aamir sir plays the role of a father. There’s action genre, where you have to show body and do stunts, so you may call that a hero (centric genre).