Meet Amole Gupte, the villain!

In Vishal Bhardwaj���s Kaminey Amole Gupte plays a Maharashtrian mafioso.
���And I had a ball! I could���ve made a career in acting in Mumbai. Years ago I played the lead in Govind Nihalani���s brother Dayal���s film Gurudakshina. But I was wedded to the camera and the lens not as an actor but on much broader level. For ten years I shifted to painting and lived a life of a painter.���
How Amole was persuaded to do Kaminey is a story in itself.
Chuckles Amole, ���From the moment the promos started I���ve been flooded with calls about the film and my look.Acting is an ongoing process. All day along we���re acting in one way or another. So I was never away from it. And in Taare Zameen Par I lived every character from Little Ishaan(Darsheel) to the English and Hindi teachers Mr Sen and Mr Tiwari.���
Recalling how he agreed to play the main villain in Kaminey Amole says, ���I though it was a crank call. A man���s voice named Honey introduced itself as Vishal Bhardwaj���s casting director and offered me a very important role, in the same space and zone as Langda Tyagi in Omkara. I banged the phone down not believing a word of what he said.���
But ��� Honey��� showed up in Amole���s office. ���He had my resume as an actor right from the time in 1981 when I did my first diploma film as an actor. Honey was aware of all my 108 films as an actor in student films, also Ketan Mehta���s Holi and Dayal Nihalani���s Guridakshina. They convinced me I was an actor.Finally I had to meet Vishal. My wife Deepa and I knew Vishal and his wife Rekha from the time I was doing dubbing direction for Kamal Haasan���s Chachi 420.And I love his films.���
The ���creative director��� of Taare Zameen Par is ready to direct another film Sapno Ko Ginte Ginte.
And like the much-acclaimed Taare, Sapnon ..is also about the life and psychology of children.
Says Amole, ���It took me so long to start another film after Taare Zameen Par because I needed to tighten my script.
Amole is not really interested in casting a star in the film. ���The kids are the star of Sapno Ko Ginte Ginte. But I do need a big brand to make the audience to come watch my film. However the star shouldn���t feel he is doing the film and the childen a favour by being part of the film.���
After Kaminey Amole is ready to take on more acting assignments. ���If it helps me to fund my film projects. But it has to touch me in some way.Otherwise I���d have become a permanent actor after Holi 22 years ago.���