I just think about myself when I sign a film - Sushant Singh Rajput

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy has stirred quite a buzz for its different look and feel. And given the fact that Dibakar Banerjee has helmed the movie, one can surely expect this one to be a roller coaster ride. Sushant who essays the title role says donning the detective garb was more interesting than being easy or difficult. 

"I don’t know if it was difficulty or easy but preparing for the role was certainly interesting. I enjoyed every bit of it. I remember knowing about pre-independent Calcutta beforehand but there were so many things on which I got enlightened on post this movie. Going to Calcutta, staying there to understand the milieu and then having long conversations with Dibakar (Banerjee) was all exciting," says Sushant. 

For Sushant, having lived with the character for many months, the last day of the shoot was particularly nostalgic. Shares Sushant, "As an actor, you are taken in such films if you have that character's active trait or if you have the potential to understand the character. Sometimes you may have that potential but you don't use it much. So when you play a character like this you end up using some traits that are present inside you which you don't generally use it. So obviously when you are living and breathing a character during the last week of the shoot, you feel nostalgic that this character won't be with you for long."

While detective films haven't traditionally done well in India, Sushant doesn't see it as a roadblock in the success of Byomkesh Bakshy and neither does he think about box-office success while signing a film. 

" It's very me thing. I just think about myself when I say yes to a film and nothing else. For me, once I am done shooting for a film is when I pray that it should do well but before that I don't. The idea if doing this film was to work with Dibakar and get to know different things and play Byomkesh. Apart from that what people will think is not something I think of while shooting. Also I feel it is not because of the genre that films don't do well. If you can sustain the curiosity in a movie, it will do well and that is consistent in this film."

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy opens in theaters across India today.