Television heartthrob Karan Wahi has been known for his skills, be it as an actor or as a host, in many Indian shows. Besides, the actor also has a huge fan following for his charming looks. Just like many other actors, he too has taken a step to try his luck in Bollywood films. His debut film, Hate Story 4 has released recently. In a conversation with the media, Karan talks about his journey, aspirations, films, thoughts etc. Here are the excerpts
Hate Story 4 is a popular and a very successful franchise, and I always had this special thought in mind always. I don't know about the other stories because I haven't been part of them but when they came to me with this story, their entire perspective was just not to sell sex. It’s a thriller and there is a quotient of sex in it but we didn’t want to make it look like an erotic thriller. We wanted to make it look like a thriller, which has a story. I think that is special because whenever we think of a film, we feel that it has to have a love story between the actor and the actress. That is the flip side of the film. It is literally a hate story. In the film, I am playing the son of a very affluent tycoon, basically, a very rich guy who works with his father. His name is Rajveer and he is in his mid-20s and is more flamboyant, more expressive than probably his father or his brother.
To each, his own. I think one hates the circumstance more than the person. I think anyone who I have loved in life or anyone who has been close to me and is not anymore, I don't hate them. I feel with time those people, who you loved the most or you were closest to, don't matter to you as much as they used to. Hate is a very strong word and I think I did when I was young, I thought anyone I disliked, I hated them. But as I grew a little older, I realised that hate is not the word I would use to express. I think disliking is the term I would associate myself with. I might like or dislike someone but I think very rarely now I hate somebody.
I think both mediums; films are TV, are equal for the viewers. This hierarchy and difference have been created by us. And now we have put another medium in the race, that is digital. I have been here for a long time and I have done shows on digital media, fiction, non-fiction and I have realized I give my best to all projects, irrespective of the medium they are aired on. I do the same thing I can if I have to act on television, I will give as much effort that when I do in films. At the end I am an actor, it's just that the medium keeps changing that doesn't make my efforts become less.
I don't have a problem with being called as TV actor because that's where I started my journey. There is a classic example of Shah Rukh Khan, we still say he is from television but we don't call him a television actor. But when we have to give an example of actors making it big we say, Shah Rukh Khan, Sushant Singh, and others. I think that will always be there and it is not good or bad. It's because it is what got you in the limelight. So even if I do one film or many films, people call me television actor and I'm okay with it.
I'd rather do anything and everything that comes naturally to me. I have been instinctive in life and have done certain things, which have worked and some that haven't. But that's the way it is. If I become critical in choosing, then I am curtailing myself from the word go. If I say I want to do a romantic film, then I am curtailing myself from other genres. Anything and everything that comes to me might be a romantic story, action or anything else, in which I can at least add something to the project, I would love to do it. Usually what happens is with people like me, who have a decent body, unfortunately for us, everything is about showing the body. People talk about your look, body and dance, but rarely they talk about your work. I think that is one reason that I don't mind doing anything that makes me happy. 10 or 20 years from now, I'll at least have a lot of things that I would have done, which would be different.
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