Mumbai, Jun 1 (DIN NEWS)<\/b>\u00a0Kay Kay Menon, one of the most versatile actors in Bollywood, says the industry does not always applaud a good performance.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old actor believes it is due to one’s destiny that an artiste gets recognition.<\/p>\n
“Cinema doesn’t deal with merit and it is a fact of life, we don’t applaud… And what has merit doesn’t become popular anyway, it is a fact and one can’t do much about it.<\/p>\n
“However noted your performance is, it doesn’t matter. It depends on your destiny. Sometimes, something just clicks and it happens to everyone. It is a matter of destiny and luck,” Menon told PTI.<\/p>\n
His filmography boasts of notable performances – both in mainstream and the indie space – with movies like “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi”, “Black Friday”, “Sarkar”, “Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd”, “Life in a… Metro”, “Gulaal”, “Haider” and “The Ghazi Attack” among others.<\/p>\n
Menon, whose latest film “Phamous” hit cinema halls today, says he felt the audience had started recognising him after the release of Ram Gopal Varma’s 2005 blockbuster “Sarkar”<\/p>\n
“Before ‘Sarkar’, I used to introduce myself as Kay Kay, the actor and then that got reduced to just Kay Kay as people realised that I am already an actor.<\/p>\n
He played Vishnu, a sleazy film producer and eldest son to megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s character Subhash Nagare (Sarkar).<\/p>\n
“Also, there was this whole influx of people wanting to cast me. This usually happens when an actor has that one notable performance that has made him popular,” he says.<\/p>\n
Menon adds if “Sarkar” did not have big names such as Bachchan and Varma associated with it, then maybe, he would not have become a known figure in the Hindi film industry.<\/p>\n
“… If big names weren’t part of the film, less number of people would have watched it. They watched the film for big names and they suddenly found a worthwhile actor like me,” he says.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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