'Made In Heaven' leading man Arjun Mathur opens up on playing a gay man on screen

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Made in Heaven' breakout star Arjun Mathur says he was initially worried about being typecast in gay roles, but the show made him realise that a well-written character is worth repeating. Having previously played the role of a homosexual in filmmaker Onir's 2010 anthology 'I Am' and a short movie 'Migration', the actor recalls how he was hesitant to play Karan Mehra in 'Made in Heaven'. «Two-three days after 'Made in Heaven' was released, I got offered a gay character in a very mainstream film that I refused.

After 'Made in Heaven' particularly, I think before I agreed to do this, I was off the block that I have done this twice before and now I should not do it again. »The experience of 'Made in Heaven' taught me that it should be always about the script. If a great script comes to me, I'll do it (play a gay role) ten times over.

I love Karan too much and I want to do this as truthfully as many times as I'll be allowed," Mathur told PTI in an interview. The actor recalled his meeting with Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar, the series creators, the first time. He had not read the script and had given two rounds of auditions.

It was later revealed to him that his character is a gay. «I remember telling them (Reema and Zoya) that, 'I don't want to do this again' because I had done it twice before, you know how we tend to typecast, I wanted to avoid it. All they said is, 'read it (script)'.