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Much more than Vivek Oberoi's father...
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Suresh Oberoi has recently won the All India Achievers Conference's Award for Excellence. RANA A. SIDDIQUI speaks to the talented artiste who knows a thing or two about poetry... .
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HE WAS in tears when he saw Vivek Oberoi receiving the Screen Award for "Saathiya" recently. He threw a flying kiss to him as the son thanked him on the stage, swabbing tears. He played with kids, danced and told them -- `don't use plastic bags, keep you surroundings neat and clean' and more in Lonawala and Worli Mumbai through street plays recently.
"I just love children, enjoy being with them, dance, talk, play and laugh and teach. You have to turn a child if you want to spend time with them. You can't draw love and respect from them if you just go to them, deliver a lecture like a leader and come back." This is Suresh Oberoi who speaks straight without pretences. In his trademark glottal voice that finds so many admirers, he minces no words when he says that character artists are "the most important beings in the films. Can you expect a film to be a hit if it has only a hero and a heroine? `Hamare bina to film hi nahin ban sakti'," he adds brimming with confidence. Oberoi was in Delhi for receiving AIAC Award for Excellence for his contribution to films.
Suresh was as good in studies as he is in acting. This commerce graduate was doing his CA when the stroke of working in films "my first love" as he calls it, hit him hard. "I had realised that I could not do without being in films." In search of "different roles" other than a boy sobbing, dancing, he lapped up roles that provided him ample chance to establish himself as an actor.
"I was ahead of time. Now see, heroes like Shah Rukh Khan are doing negative roles that I did long back," he smiles at his accomplishment. But then doesn't it mean that character artists have lost their significance? "Not at all! `Ravan ke bina Ram kya karega'," he asks. Moreover, "heroes put so many conditions before doing risky roles. They are scared of jumping from a height, getting beaten more. I see all such tamasha going on everyday on the sets. But I was never afraid, hence I lapped up maximum good and risky roles too," Suresh has reasons to feel proud. Remember "Lawaaris" in which he is shown dragging a cart out of slush?
But acting is not the only thing he does. Besides hosting "Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai" on TV, he writes too -- "romantic and philosophical poetry". Being well read himself, he corrects you if you utter a couplet wrong and will tell you the poet's name too. He is due to come out with a book of his poetry "very soon".
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