Script is king, swears Rajeev

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Actor Rajeev Khandelwal doesn’t think big budgets, big banners or acclaimed directors are synonymous with good films. A good script clubbed with good performance and good treatment by the filmmaker can do the trick.

He shifted to the film industry with Aamir, after a successful stint on the small screen, with a new director. And now, debutante Neerav Ghosh is directing Rajeev’s upcoming film Soundtrack.
Rajeev, who was in the capital recently to shoot for a show on super cars that will be aired on National Geographic Channel, says that a good script matters the most to him. In fact, he didn’t do a film in the last two years because he wanted to do something interesting and challenging. “I was grateful when Aamir was appreciated. I wanted to do a film that can be watched over and over again for many years. It takes time to hunt for scripts that hold such quality,” says Rajeev, talking about why he has done very few films till date. His last appearance was in the two-month-old Shaitan.
Talking about Soundtrack, he says, “It’s a very interesting film. It doesn’t have the clichéd style of narrating the story. I play the character of a small town guy who comes to Mumbai with big dreams. He becomes a sound recorder but at the height of his career, he is detected with a hearing disorder. It’s his story of overcoming the catastrophe.”
And while his co-actor Soha, who is portraying the character of a born-deaf girl , researched her role, Rajeev chose to go by whatever the director told him about his role. “I imagined the situation and worked according to that,” he says.
He is also looking forward to the Super Cars series. The actor says that he is in awe of super cars from the moment he got to know about the technicalities involved. “It was super exciting to shoot with these beauties. I was going mad and wild,” he quips. But his fascination is only for the cars. He confesses that unlike many he has never really been a bike freak. “But I dream of a trip to Ladakh on a bike,” he says.