Telegu actor Sudheer Babu, who is making his debut in the Hindi film industry with Sabbir Khan's Baaghi, was happy as a popular actor in the Telugu film industry and had never dreamt of venturing into Bollywood.
In fact, he was apprehensive about the film, and had made-up his mind to decline the offer. Until he heard the whole script.
“I couldn't believe that such a big production house (UTV) would come to me and I didn’t believe they would give me a role with a scope of performance. I was expecting a small scene, and a small fight with Tiger. Honestly, I have a lot of work in the Telugu film industry. But once I heard the script of Baaghi, I found it very interesting,” Babu told Firstpostin an interview.
The actor, who plays the villain in the film, further reveals that he now has two-film contract with filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala, who produced Baaghi.
Being a popular hero, how much did Babu have to convince himself to debut with a negative role in Bollywood? "I want to be recognised as a very good actor. Being a hero or a villain doesn’t matter for me. For this film, if they had given me a choice, I would have chosen to do the villain’s role. Even in my Telugu debut, I played a small role of a villain. From there on, I got lead role offers,” said Babu.
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