From being mistaken for Varun Dhawan to being asked to act like a monkey at an audition, Rajkummar Rao made some candid confessions to Brut.
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00:00Once I did something, some scene, a long back actually, 2008 only I guess when I shifted
00:09to Mumbai and then someone asked me, it was a long piece, and then someone asked me can
00:14you do the whole thing like a monkey and I found it very weird but I did it anyways.
00:19Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody scammed me in Delhi, they took around 11,000 rupees from
00:28me, did one photo shoot and exactly like how it happens in films and I went there after
00:33couple of days, there was nothing there, it was locked and then there were couple of people
00:37there who told me, you know, you got scammed.
00:45It is true, I spent almost 6 and hours outside Mannat because I came to the city, actually
00:50the main reason was to see him and to see where he lives and just to feel the city because
00:55I don't know, I think I always wanted to come here and be a film actor one day.
01:02I met him in 2014, we were promoting, I was promoting City Lights and he was shooting
01:09for one of his ads, ad commercials and we were in Mehboob together, we were at Mehboob
01:16and I just told somebody, Shakun Batra actually who was directing his ad that I wanted to
01:22meet him and he was very kind and he called me in, Shah Rukh sir and I was totally mesmerized
01:29of course, the moment I saw him because I have been seeing him as a kid and his posters
01:34and his hoardings and I have got all his articles and his pictures, you know, how you keep it
01:40in a diary, you cut those images from the magazines and to see him actually in person
01:45and for him to be so kind, he knew everything about me, about Shahid and the National Award
01:51and the next film that's coming, I think it was a very special meeting.
02:00Yeah, somebody came for a picture and said, please Varun sir, can I have a picture?
02:04I said, yeah sure, I just want to break his heart.
02:07I just still feel very weird calling people fans, all I can see is love in their eyes
02:11and then how excited they feel and get sometimes and sometimes when they start, you know, sometimes
02:17they start shaking so that makes me feel very weird, you know, I am a nobody, please
02:22don't shake and all, we are okay.
02:29Not a gunda but I was a, I got into a lot of school fights because I think I was also
02:36in martial arts and I was just a brave heart, if somebody would trouble my friends, I would
02:41be the first one to get up and start fighting with those other boys, yeah.
02:48Yeah, stories which I know can maybe spread hatred or divide our society, so those kinds
02:59of stories, I won't do them.
03:05Jayanth is ready to compromise on his moral values and I won't do that, I think that's
03:10the only difference that we have, otherwise it's pretty much a similar thing, you know,
03:15we both come to this, we both had come to this big city with dreams in our eyes and
03:20trying to make it big and we both are successful in our own ways but he is somebody who would,
03:28who is ready to do anything for that success and I am not.