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'I hated myself': Arjun Rampal admits to being 'too stiff' in film debut, found attention on looks 'confusing'

Posted on: Dec 24, 2025 10:57 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
'I hated myself': Arjun Rampal admits to being 'too stiff' in film debut, found attention on looks 'confusing'
ARjun Rampal is a subject Award-winning worker. His portraiture of a dejected instrumentalist in sway On won him his only National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also won acclaim for numerous other films, including Om Shanti Om, D Day and most recently, Dhurandhar. But Arjun wasn’t always the best actor around, something the actor admits too. When he entered the film industry, many criticised his stiff performances, and Arjun himself has said he ‘hated’ himself.Arjun Rampal on his early days as actorIn a new interview with Grazia, Arjun recalled the first film he shot for Moksha. “I hated myself. I was too stiff. I’d trained myself as a model, not an actor,” the actor recalled.Moksha was delayed for years, and Arjun made his big-screen debut with Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat in 2001. In the initial years of his career, Arjun was known as the model who transitioned to acting. The conversations around him always focused on his looks and how he appeared on screen. Talking about that, Arjun added, “It was tough for me to have conversations. Suddenly, it all became about looks, and I got a lot of attention. Attention became important because if you’re not getting it, you’re in the wrong field. It kind of confuses you to a certain degree. But as you mature, you realise that how you look has nothing to do with you; you have to thank your parents for it.”Arjun Rampal in DhurandharArjun was most recently seen in Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar, where he won acclaim for his turn as a brutal ISI Major. Dhurandhar is a spy thriller directed by Aditya Dhar, starring Ranveer Singh as an Indian spy in Pakistan. Akshaye Khanna stars as a Pakistani gangster, Sanjay Dutt plays Karachi SP Chaudhary Aslam, and R Madhavan portrays the Indian intelligence chief. Arjun will reprise his role in Dhurandhar 2, which concludes the story of Ranveer’s Hamza, aka Jaskirat. Part 2 releases in theatres on March 19, 2026.

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