Jaideep Ahlawat recently opened up in an interview that he got no work after his hard-hitting performance in Alia Bhatt’s Raazi. Moreover, the actor was offered over a hundred cop roles after his famed portrayal of an unfit police officer in the crime-thriller Paatal Lok.
During a roundtable interaction with The Hollywood Reporter India, Jaideep said, “A time comes when you need to do something and you get a good role. It gets out with people liking it but you still don’t have work. After Raazi, I didn’t have work. And you are like, ‘what went wrong?’ Everybody is praising it. Everybody is talking about the role.”
After Raazi, he was offered similar roles. “Everybody wanted me to play an IB (Intelligence Bureau) officer and RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) officer, but I didn’t want to do that. I had just done it.”
He recalled facing a similar issue during Paatal Lok. “Like after Paatal Lok, I got hundreds of scripts of cop. Heights were like (when people told me) ‘sir, it’s a mixture of Paatal Lok and Mirzapur (Another hit Amazon Prime Video show).’ (I was like) ‘What? Yeh kya hai? (What is this?)’ But then everybody wants that thing.”
The actor will be seen reprising the role of Hathi Ram Chaudhary in Paatal Lok Season 2, which is set to be released on Prime Video on January 17.