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Sendhil Ramamurthy made his Bollywood comeback after over two decades. The Never Have I Ever actor received a lot of appreciation for his performance in Vidya Balan and Pratik Gandhi‘s Do Aur Do Pyaar which is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
Sendhil plays Vidya’s love interest in the recently released rom-com. In this interview with indianexpress.com, the Indo- American actor, who has been a part of Shor In The City (2011) and Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever (2020) in the past, talks about making his Bollywood comeback and his secret of looking so youthful at 50. “This morning when I woke up I felt 79!,” the actor jokes, adding, “Every part of my body was aching, I was playing a two-and-a-half-hour tennis match yesterday.”
Opening up on how he manages to look so fit at his age, Sendhil credits “good genetics”. He adds, “I try to take care of myself but the majority of it is good genetics. I can’t really take any credit for it.”
Sendhil plays Vidya’s boyfriend in Do Aur Do Pyaar, and he’s a total scene stealer in the role of a globe-trotting photographer. On bagging the film, the actor says, “It was such an amazing experience. When I got the script from (producer) Tanuj Garg, who also produced Shor In The City. He said that they were about to begin the film and that the character he was offering me was not written as an NRI but they’d change it if I responded to it. I read Vikram and Kavya’s scenes and realised that in a lot of places, he has to say a lot without dialogue. A lot of it is done with the look or a gesture and I thought this would be such a great challenge for me.”
The non-judgmental approach towards marriage and infidelity also made the actor signed on the dotted line. “I loved the script, I loved that it was non-judgmental and took a mature look at marriages and extramarital affairs and it didn’t paint any one person as a villain. I felt like any one of these characters could be off with their own separate movie. Everybody was fleshed out in a way that their journey was realised and that’s a very rare thing. I don’t see things like that out in the market right now. I felt like this movie is going to have a clear run at this.”
But what kept him away from working in India for so long after he did Shor In The City in 2011? He says he couldn’t afford to be away from his children while they were growing up. He says, “I am dying to do more work in India. First of all, I tend to be picky. Then obviously there is a language barrier for me. So, the right role has to come along that speaks to me. Stuff has come through but it wasn’t anything that really sparked my creative juices. And then going away for too long, with my family, I didn’t really want to be away from my children for too long, where I could not fly home on the weekends. Now my children are teenagers and they don’t want to hang out with me, they want to be with their friends. So now I am much more open and I’m putting it out in the universe that some more work comes to me from Indian cinema. I’d love to come back and do something soon.”
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