Very few actors enjoy playing cop roles the way Vijay Raghavendra does. Time and again, he is seen wearing the khaki with ease. Cheekily, he mentions, “Probably in some other birth lifetime, I would have been a cop,” as he gets ready to see himself in a cop avatar in his upcoming film Second Case of Seetharamreleasing on February 20. Interestingly, his web series OTT debut, Rakshasawhich also releases on the same day, sees him yet again as a police officer.
“I have always had this kind of coincidence in my career. People find me very calm and composed, and this is because of incidents, which keep me calm, sometimes chaotic. Amidst all that, what keeps me going is the excitement of work and the kindness people have shown to my craft,” he says.
Ask Vijay what draws filmmakers to repeatedly cast him as a cop, and he is thoughtful, “I have often mentioned this, that usually police officers roles shown in regular mass masala, apart from very few heroes, have not been given much justice. Usually police officers bring in a violent silence. I want to bring that on screen with all respect.”
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