Enrapturing hearts and winning all the right accolades with his recent stint in Kaala, actor Rohan Vinod Mehra, who is creating waves for himself in the industry, gets candid with The Pioneer about his character in Kaala, how the role affected him off camera, and more.
Tejal Sinha
Popularly known for his role in Bazaar along with Saif Ali Khan, actor Rohan Vinod Mehra is currently getting all the much-deserved love for his recent stint in Kaala. And yes, now he’s the talk of the town!
Rohan, who plays the character of Subhendu Mukherjee, is the son of the well-known actor Vinod Mehra. Enjoying the love and admiration for his role that he has gotten, he described his character’s journey as nothing short of an “immense roller coaster of emotions,” which according to him was also one of the factors that made him very thrilled to portray the role.
Rohan plays three different characters, of different age groups. However, according to him, “Playing the old man was difficult but I think the prep that Bejoy and I had done, we had done a lot of prep for the character to understand who he in was, who were the people was around him. Once we got into the sets, we were all prepared to take on and shoot this character. It definitely was challenging and required a lot of efforts from my part and a lot of preparations were shown.”
Something that he looked for in the script he says was how emotional the role would be! “When I first started reading the character and script, I thought that the role is definitely emotional but there’s different elements to it. During the journey, when I was finding Subhendu and the truth in the scenes, I kept coming back to such a strong emotion of love, and the emotion for why this man is doing what he does. So that surprised me a lot about the character and the journey he took,” he shares adding, “One thing that he really got to learn was doing a character that you can connect on an emotional and an instinctive level. It is the best way, and quite assuring as an actor because now that I see how the show is being loved so much, it’s just so fulfilling. The character with whom you relate the most in the future will be the most fun to play since they will motivate you to move on.”
The series also takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions and will give you shivers down your spine as you watch it. In a world where power, revenge, and wealth rule, the way to succeed in life often involves a complex maze of lies and clever tricks. Recalling at the most challenging scene to shoot, he shares, “It was definitely the army scene, the action part of the show because we had the location for a certain amount of time and we were shooting on a real location. We had to get all of the aspects perfect. Everything had to be in sync to make it look realistic. We had to take multiple takes just for the choreography of the scene. My character in that particular scene, there was a lot of running. It was definitely demanding and you also had to make sure you don’t lose the emotional connect of the scene.”
To him, the most rewarding part of working on the series, he says, “Having to work with Bijoy. The trust and the freedom he gives you as an actor bring the life and soul of a lot of you into the character. He does not make any judgment on his part of the director. He always tried to figure out how are we doing the scenes, how the character was, and what decisions the character would take.”
“The character affected me a lot off the camera as well because we shot the whole thing in West Bengal, Kolkata, and Siliguri. My scenes were completely different as compared to the rest of the cast in terms of story and timeline. It was not like coming home to family and friends after the shoot. We were in a lot of isolated locations and there were not really network signals. It was lonely in that way. It was all about your character and what you’re doing the next day. I’m not as lonely as my character in real life but I love to have my alone time and do things on my own,” signs off the budding actor, who will next be seen playing another different character in Adbhut, starring alongside Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
