Don’t see myself doing a lead role: Badshah

POPULAR RAPPER-COMPOSER BADSHAH could have made his acting debut with Karan Johar’s segment in Lust Stories. Instead, he focussed on his debut album titled ONE. He wants to hit the gym and get fitter to act, but says that he doesn’t see himself playing a lead role in a film.

The anthology film wasn’t the only one offered to the rapper, known for chartbusters like Saturday Saturday, Chull, DJ Waley Babu

and Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.

“I got acting offers in the past. Good News... the one that Diljit Dosanjh is doing with Akshay Kumar, was offered to me. I was offered Vicky Kaushal’s role in Lust Stories, which I had declined,” Badshah, whose given name is Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia,said.

“I have got other offers too. My focus was on my album. After this, I will probably go to the gym, work out then you will see a different Badshah.”

Something like singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya, who lost weight for a film?

“I am not going to change my look. I will become a bit fit. Somehow, I don’t see myself doing a lead role. Lead actors either do romantic or action (films). I am bad at romance and action,” he said.

He thinks so despite getting lauded for his acting skills in the over seven-minute-long video of his song Heartless from the new album that had a live online launch on the music app Gaana earlier this month.

“I think that I can act. Hav-

ing said that, we have got great actors like Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Nawazuddin

Siddiqui. I feel that if I play a role, it should suit me,” said Badshah.