Rajkummar Rao: “I Don’t Know How A Hero Feels, I Feel Like An Actor”

Actor Rajkummar Rao, who is gearing up for the release of his forthcoming film “Stree“, says that he doesn’t understand the term quintessential hero in Hindi films.

Rajkummar was interacting with media at the trailer launch of “Stree” along with co-actors Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee, director Amar Kaushik, film distributor Anil Thadani, music composer Sachin-Jigar and producers Raj Nidimoru, Krishna D.K and Dinesh Vijan.

Asked whether he ultimately feels like a hero of Hindi films as he has featured in a number of successful films and won prestigious awards, Rajkummar said,”I don’t know how a hero feels honestly. I feel like an actor and I wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to feel like an actor and I don’t understand the term quintessential hero of Hindi films.”

“There are people who approach me for a film telling me that it’s a typical hero film but I always tell them that rather telling me it’s a hero film, tell me about name and characteristics of that character. What is hero? We are not heroes.. heroes are people who are fighting for us on borders. We are just doing our job that’s it,” he added.

Rajkummar is known as the face of real Hindi cinema after his critically acclaimed performances in “Citylights“, “Shahid” and “Newton“.