Actor-director Deepak Tijori, who rose to fame with movies like Aashiqui and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, is gearing up for the discharge of his newest quick movie Echoes of Us. Whereas selling the challenge, Tijori not too long ago mirrored on the sort of cinema he at all times aspired to be a part of, however didn’t get the possibility to.In a uncommon second of vulnerability, Tijori revealed that the one actor whose profession he really envied was the late Irrfan Khan. “There was at all times one actor I envied — that was Irrfan Khan,” he shared with Bollywood Bubble, including, “The sort of cinema he did, that was the type I needed to do. However I by no means received the chance as a result of they at all times thought I used to be too business a property to be a part of that cinema.”‘I used to be at all times an actor, by no means a star breed’Regardless of being recognised for his roles in a few of the most iconic movies of the ’90s, Tijori confessed that he was usually boxed right into a business mould, making it troublesome for him to discover extra grounded, inventive cinema. “I used to be at all times an actor. I used to be by no means a star breed,” he mentioned.He admitted that he by no means cared a lot for song-and-dance routines both, in contrast to a few of his friends. “That’s why if you happen to see me in cinema, I don’t have songs to play like Shah Rukh Khan. You guys do all these boss-level songs. I used to say, ‘Okay, I’ll do my work,’ however I by no means had songs,” he recalled with amusing. “I used to inform them — don’t make me sing, yaar, I discover it annoying.”
‘Ittar is Irrfan cinema. And I need to do this now’Tijori feels he’s lastly moving into the sort of cinema he’s at all times longed for. Mentioning his latest work Ittar and one other upcoming challenge with filmmaker Veena, he famous that these movies mirror the refined, introspective storytelling that outlined Irrfan’s legacy. “Ittar is Irrfan cinema. What I’m doing once more with Veena — that’s Irrfan cinema,” he asserted.Deepak additionally revealed that Echoes of Us got here into being after he met Joe, a fellow director who had labored on earlier initiatives. The 2 bonded over their shared imaginative and prescient and determined to collaborate. “I wrote it as a result of I met Joe, and Joe was additionally a director. We turned buddies and thought — chalo, let’s do one thing,” he mentioned.