Strike Two!

Rang De Basanti may be out of sight, but never out of mind. “If you’ve made your mark, you can make a comeback anytime,” couple of minutes into the conversation and we were already trying to gauge ‘what’s is about Siddharth Narayan that makes him (pardon the cliche) different’. At 30, the southern superstar has already delivered ‘a proud track record’ of eight super duper hits out of nine. He’s called the Aamir Khan of south for he makes sure his films make money for everyone. A top ranker from SP Jain College of Management, Mumbai, he rejected corporate offers so that he could assist Mani Ratnam. To add to your list of complexes, the actor’s a trained vocalist, drummer, writer, producer and an MBA. He has, in fact, produced one of the biggest albums in Telegu called Oye. And he is also one of the highest paid actors down south. As we walk down this ‘hall of fame’, Siddharth stumps us with the most unbelievable line: “I’m a underdog in real life.” For someone whose middle name is ‘confidence’, this was a tad too much. But what the heck, it goes pretty well with his latest offering. After leaving a mark with the audiences and filmmakers in RDB as the brooding Karan, the actor vanished from the scene only to resurface after four years in Bollywood with Chandan Arora’s Striker.

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