When Pankaj Tripathi performed item songs, was told by village elder that he can replace ‘heroines’ in Bollywood films

Pankaj Tripathi has revealed that he used to play feminine components in his village performs, and even used to carry out merchandise numbers. The actor was sharing his outdated reminiscences in an look on No Filter Neha.

Opening up about how he’d play feminine components throughout his faculty days, he mentioned, “I was in the 10th standard when I played a girl for the first time. The boy who used to play a girl had not returned from town, people were wondering that the play won’t happen that year as that boy wasn’t there. It was then that I volunteered to take up the part. But our director — Raghav chacha told me to take permission from my father, just in case he got angry later and climbed the stage with a lathi. My father didn’t object to me playing a girl and allowed me to do as I wish to.”

Pankaj revealed that this led to him additionally performing merchandise songs in between performs, even once they weren’t wanted. He added, “People loved my dance and would say, ‘he dances so well’.”

He additional opened up about how an aged man within the village suggested him to go to Mumbai and mentioned, “If this boy goes to Mumbai, he will oust several top Bollywood actresses.” Pankaj defined that the aged man was of the opinion that similar to the outdated instances, the feminine characters in Hindi movies weren’t feminine however male actors in make-up and girls’s garments.

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“I knew Mumbai was out of sight for me and I didn’t want to go to Mumbai at that time. I didn’t know I would become an actor, it was just for fun,” he mentioned on the present. Pankaj is now a family identify after taking part in a number of common characters in tasks resembling Sacred Games, Stree, and Mirzapur. He additionally performed memorable roles in movies resembling Bareilly Ki Barfi, Newton and Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl.

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