Manav Kaul is enjoying his stint in Bollywood

A playwright, director, writer, an actor and also an occasional painter, Manav says he's enjoying his stint in Bollywood.
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Originally hailing from Kashmir from Khojabad, a small village in Baramulla district of the state, Kaul still remembers this time spent there. "Recently I travelled to Kashmir and went to see my old house. And is was very sad to see it half fallen.Though I was very young but I have wonderful memories of the place. We left the place because my father's office was bombed by the terrorists," recalls Manav. Adding, "Later, we shifted to Hoshangabad near Bhopal. There I was quite active in games and was a member of the national swimming team. Then one day I saw a play and I was fascinated by the actors on stage. And bassochaabtohyahikarnahaiand that's how my journey in Mumbai began." The rest as they say is history with Manav tasting popularity as Bittoo Uncle in Kai Po Che and as Vishnu Sir -- the supervisor -- in the film City Lights as well as writing and directing plays like Ilhaam, Park and Shakkar ke Paanch Daane and also a Hindi film titled Hansa, which won several awards.
Now a very popular actor, Manav says acting was never on his mind when he came to Mumbai. "Because I never enjoyed acting as much before Kai Po Che. The roles I did play were good ones, but of late the ones being offered to me didn't seem as interesting to me. I'm a very idealistic person. If I get into something, I do it completely. I don't do anything halfway. I put my heart and soul into it. And the roles I was being offered weren't ones I could have done full justice too," says Kaul who's acting in Bejoy Nambiar's Wazir along with Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar. "I'm enjoying the shooting thoroughly. I've also signed another film. Uske baare main Ill tell you later. So, now I'm doing a couple of big films and only ones in which I can do something different and interesting," he says with a smile. "In fact I'm travelling to Kashmir next month to shoot Wazir."
The director says there's little chance of him directing a full-fledged Bollywood commercial film. "I'm waiting to get old. Tab I know I will make fantastic films. I won't make a typically masala Bollywood film because I know as a director I can change a lot of things. A typical masala pot boiler will not be in which I can say what I want to say. So, like my theatre, it's going to be an extension of my ideas, ideals and my thoughts. But as I said, yeh sab tab jab main boodha ho jaunga. But one thing I can be sure of, I'll be a hot old man. Tab bhimeriutni hi fans hongi, shouting Manav Manav," says he with a laugh.
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