Acting is not an easy job and actors work really hard to get into the skin of movie characters. Great performances are delivered only after doing proper homework and understanding the role.
AN ACTOR prepares his acting career like a platter in which acting is to be done and presented according to the movie’s script and as per a character demands. Actors have different roles and characters to be performed and fill their acting with diversity.
One of the famous dialogues delivered by our great actor Raj Kumar- ‘Yeh baccho ke khelne ki cheez nhi hain jaani’, rightly fits requirements for acting skills because acting is not ‘child’s play’.We can take an example of the Indian cinema’s biggest acting sensation of the 50s and 60s, Dilip Kumar, often used to take acting work to home, because when he starred in many tragic and sentimental roles like Devdas, he had to seek psychiatric help and later eventually he took to comedy to fight the demons of his serious performances.
The living legend of the Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan for his role in ‘Black’, who played a teacher suffering from Alzheimer's, watched several documentaries before performing this role. Both, he and Rani Mukherji studied sign language and learnt Braille for several month.Recently, when Shahid Kapoor decided to play an Indian pilot in his upcoming movie - Mausam, he went under rigorous training to fly F16, to get into the skin of character. And recently, Vidya Balan, who essays the role of a pregnant woman in the upcoming movie - Kahaani - learned how a six-month pregnant women would walk, at what speed, and how to sit and get up. Even if Vidya is not trained as an actor, she approaches and completes the duty of performing the role in her own way.
Now-a-days, actors are going to the hilt and giving their best to do justice to their on-screen characters. Actors try their best to get their roles and performances right. One thing is for sure - acting needs not to be in your blood, it can be learned. All it requires is some research, intense preparation and passion.