Avoiding Stereotypes: How Sanjay Mishra Has Managed To Act For Nearly 30 Years!

Sanjay Mishra has been acting for more than three decades, across different formats understands the importance of doing a variety of roles, in order to avoid getting stereotyped, or roles that he has done in the past before.

“It is very important for me personally to avoid stereotypes. What happens is that, when a film ot a TV show or a web series becomes popular, people start offering you similar characters and roles. Like for me, after ‘Masaan’, I try to do roles where I am the girl’s father, or similar such thing,” he says.

Thanks to OTT platforms, Mishra says, actors like him are getting different roles to play, and the variety in stories is also helping the audience evolves from the usual, “pyar mohabbat ki cheezein (things around love and romance)”.

“Uske alawa bhi kaafi cheezein hain (There are many things apart from love and romance. And now there are many stories which are not like that. So as an actor, I am getting a chance to do all kinds of roles. That’s my job as an actor,” he says.

“There is a lot of content now, where audiences are noticing the minutest of gestures and your mannerisms. As as an actor, you have to be able to relate with the character and be able to create those little thing about the character, which will make the audience go like ‘oh yes I know someone like this character’ in my life as well,” adds Mishra who will be seen in the film ’36 Farhmouse’, written by popular filmmaker Subhash Ghai.

"It is an interesting film, with a lot of entertaining sequences, which is a combination of circumstances and the characters in that film. There are plenty of characters who have never seen a farmhouse in their life, so there is a lot of humour from there, and there’s also a lot of humour on the class difference that exists between the various characters,” he signs off.