Your role in One Two Three was hilarious...

One Two Three is about three guys, three characters from three different cities belonging to three different professions but having the same name —Laxminarayan— and that’s what creates all the confusion, the same name game identity crises. 

You had enacted the role of a hardcore criminal in Apoorva Lakhia’s Shootout At Lokhandwala too. So how different is the wannabe criminal in One Two Three?

I would say that the two roles are diametrically opposite. In Shootout At Lokhandwala I had enacted the role of a criminal Dilip Bua who already had a history sheeter extortionist record along with Maya Dolas (Vivek Oberoi). Besides they were not the real Don, they were just the aides of a real life Don. In One Two Three I am a gullible man who just wants to fulfil his mother’s dream of her son becoming a Don. She jumps with joy when I commit a murder and goes to the temple and distributes sweets in our mohalla proclaiming that her son has finally become a murderer and very soon he will become a Don.

How did you prepare for this role?

I went by director Ashwini Dheer’s vision, my real life innocence and naivety. Your smile says that you don’t believe me! Fine!

In One Two Three you have been paired with Esha Deol once again after a long time. Did you find the on screen chemistry missing in the interim phase?

Frankly speaking, no! It never felt like four years have lapsed after we did our last film Insaan together. She is the same bubbly girl perhaps with a little bit of more childishness in her. In One Two Three she is the perfect romantic foil for the wannabe Bhai. 

Are you trying to acquire the image of a multi starrer comedy hero only, by hardly doing any solo roles?

I love doing comedy roles. My best was as the mute boy in Golmaal – Fun Unlimited. I think everyone had great fun watching this film.

Nobody is writing a perfect solo hero script these days. The trend has changed. Every hero today is involved in doing more than one hero projects. So why single me out? Yet I have been daring enough to do solo hero films like Kya Love Story Hai and Agarr. 

Name the five best films of your career.

Golmaal – Fun Unlimited, Dhol, Gayab, Kya Kool Hain Hum, Shootout At Lokhandwala and… my debut movie Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai. 

Future projects...

C Kompany, Golmaal Returns.