MUMBAI: After appearing in the political drama Article 370, Raj Arjun is back to entertain the public with Razakar: The Silent Genocide of Hyderabad. The epic historical drama film has been widely successful in South Indian cinema and is currently showing in Hindi theaters.

In the film, Raj Arjun portrays the brutal Kasim Razvi, who sends hell down Hyderabad's people and forces them to convert their religion. The actor discussed portraying the harsh, difficult part and his family's response to it in an interview with the popular news portal.

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The actor discussed his initial thoughts upon reading the script, saying, "I didn't read the script, I narrated the story in bits and parts. I was told about the role, its brutality, cruelty, and its history and was asked to read about it. When I read about it, I thought it was an extraordinary and challenging role that will take me a step higher in my life and I will get the chance to prove my craft and graph. It's a good story, meaningful cinema and I like doing such roles and thus I came onboard."

He further added that the role did have a lasting impact on him and revealed how he managed not to take the aggression home. Raj Arjun said, "While shooting the anger does come home with me. It's not a machine that you can switch it on and off. I am an actor who takes a different pleasure in not breaking the character at all. I want to stay in that aura because the screen space I get, might be of one month or 40 days but this 40-day process doesn't happen in one go. So I want to live that character fully. I have been hungry as an actor, so I want to live that character to the fullest. Mostly such shootings happen outside my hometown so I live away from my family but there is also a subconscious thought to not hurt their feelings in any way."

Raj Arjun also disclosed that, despite Sara Arjun, his daughter, being proud of him, his son continued to beat him for acting cruelly in the film and stated, "My wife and my daughter liked my work a lot and my daughter (Sara Arjun) is also an actress, so she sees it from that perspective and she was very proud. She said, Dad this is one of your lifetime roles and you have broken all your myths of yourself and you are breaking your own records so I am proud. My wife also had the same feeling. My son didn't understand Telugu and was just hitting me in every scene saying 'why are you so brutal'."

Yata Satyan Narayana wrote and directed Razakar, which is based on the events leading to Operation Polo in Hyderabad, a former princely state. The film is currently playing in theaters and was produced by Gudur Narayana Reddy under Samarveer Creation LLP, also stars Bobby Simha, Tej Sapru, Makarand Deshpande, and Vedhika in important parts.

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