Hit television show Anupamaa’s actor Sudhansu Pandey opens up about playing Vanraj Shah

Actor Sudhansu Pandey is no newbie, in fact, the actor has completed two decades in the industry. The actor recently shared his thoughts about the character, his growth as an artist, and how people are extremely quick to judge his onscreen character.

The actor said, “I think this journey has been very enriching as an actor. I had always heard that daily soap actors get exhausted by playing the same character for years and they reach a saturation point. I'm very lucky that I got a character in my daily soap who was obviously the male protagonist but so much more than the male lead, who has got so many layers. The kind of complicated and complex mind that the character has, I thought would give me a scope to give a new dimension to every time that there is something new happening on the show. In the last two years, I've had not one single day, where I felt saturated."

Sudhanshu also added that peoples criticise his character and how he deals with it by saying, "Some people are very quick to judge Vanraj but I sit back and smile because I know that these people will turn around and say, 'yaar, ye itna bura aadmi nahin hai.' That is the beauty of this character, it's multi-dimensional. The only thing that I have had to keep in mind is that very thin line where I cannot be a very negative or a very positive person because that will make my character very unrealistic. So, I've had to walk that very thin line but I keep everything under control during scenes where there are dialogues that push the character in a certain direction. So, I have to tone down the dialogues and also have a discussion with the creatives and writers a lot of times to change a few things, and they are very happy to incorporate the changes because they understand where I'm coming from and completely relate to it too."

Sudhanshu Pandey concluded by saying, "I've been trying my best to give my hundred per cent to this character."