Randeep Hooda recently opened up about his USP as an actor in an event. He said that he doesn’t compete with others as he named Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor and Tiger Shroff, noting their dancing skills and said that they cannot do what he can do. He also talked about doing limited films and investing energy in good stories.

Speaking about the kind of films he likes to work in at the India Today Mind Rocks 2024 Youth Summit in Bengaluru, Randeep said, “I have always wanted to not just do frothy films. In India and everywhere, we are looking at entertainment, where we are not required to apply our minds too much. But I have been fortunate enough to choose films at the sacrifice of not doing enough – out of 24 years of my experience as a professional actor, I have not been on the sets for 11 years. So, either I am waiting for something meaningful to come across or I am preparing for something.”

He was asked during the event to dance on stage but he refused and said, “This is the reason why I prefer to do transformational acting, or method acting, where you are preparing yourself to know the truth of a character. For example, I have played many cop roles, but I have not played a cardboard cop wearing a uniform. They are human beings who happen to be cops. That’s where you create a difference.”

He added, “Because I was not good at dancing, I chose to be good at this. So, why compete with Hrithik, Shahid and Tiger because they dance so well? They can’t do what I do. Find your USP.”

Randeep was last seen in Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, a film he also directed. He will be seen next in Telugu filmmaker Gopichand Malineni's upcoming film starring Sunny Deol.