Rohit Roy---Karan Vir Pratap Singh in Sarrkkar!
It's not possible to perform an emotionally highly-strung role and not be affected by it. Agreed, one needs to switch off after enacting a scene and not let it affect your personal self. But sometimes I find it difficult to shake it off and I end up carrying my on screen personality even off-screen,even after I have finished shooting for a particular episode of Sarrkkar," says the 'angry young man' of television, Rohit Roy, who essays the role of Karan Singh Datta in the political soap, Sarrkkar.
Narrating an incident when he thought his onscreen personality was overpowering his off screen personality, Rohit says, "By mistake, I had entered a no entry street. The cop came and blocked my way with a tin dabba. I knew it was my fault, but I just told him, "Agli baar roka toh dabba uda ke chala jaoonga (next time you do this, I will bang the box (and you) at full speed). I was shocked by my own behaviour."
Anger for him has two sides. It is both, purgation and an abyss. "Like William Blake said, "I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow". So also it is with everybody. If you let your anger simmer within you, it will be more destructive than when you just release it then and there. Just like a soda bottle," he says.
From the character of Rishabh Malhotra in his first serial, Swaabhimaan, to that of Karan Datta in Sarrkkar, Rohit feels, his style of portraying anger has changed. "Hey, though I may play an angry young man on TV, but I am not the same in real life. I have a perfect control switch. I think I manage my anger well because I am very straightforward and tell people on the face when I don't agree with something. And I know how each one of us has good and bad days and if you start allowing them to affect you, it gets very difficult. That's when your family should understand, that something seems to be wrong and should give you space," he says.
Rohit believes anger can be controlled. "Think before you do or say anything. Once you do, the damage is done. Never act instinctively, unless the situation demands. You have your emotion control switch in your hand and you can manipulate it as you please,' he advises.
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