Actor Rajeev Khandelwal who hopped easily from the small to the silver screen is gearing up for the release of the film Table No 21. He talks about his wife Manjiri and his hard-to-forget television image.
Table No 21 will be your fifth release in five years. Are you very selective about the films you do?
Unfortunately, the kind of films I want to do don’t happen everyday. I would have done one film a month but of the ten scripts that I read, eight don’t excite me, and in the other two, the director does not excite me. Or the producer is a businessman who just wants to make a film. I would rather wait for good films.
How does your wife react to your doing intimate scenes?
My first intimate scene was after marriage in Soundtrack . Manjiri is very chilled out; she knows me well. She is very secure in her space; she takes a lot of pride in being Manjiri — not Rajeev’s wife. I have also done an intimate scene with Tena Desae in Table No 21 . Strangely, people don’t ask me how my wife reacts when I kick people onscreen in fight sequences. A kick hurts more.
People still associate you with Sujal from your TV show, Kahin Toh Hoga .
People also associate me with other characters that I have played. And I am proud of it. When I travel, people tell me, ‘Are you Rajeev Singh Shekhawat from Left Right Left . Some people remember me from my film Aamir others from Soundtrack . I am very happy being an actor; the medium doesn’t matter to me.
Bollywood News Service
