Unlike
most
debutants,
Vivek
Oberoi
stepped
into
the
Hindi
film
industry
with
an
unconventional
role
in
Ram
Gopal
Varma's
Company
in
2002.
The
actor
walked
away
with
several
accolades
for
his
gangster
act
in
this
film.
In
the
same
year,
Vivek
took
the
audience
by
pleasant
surprise
when
he
channeled
his
inner
lover
boy
in
Shaad
Ali's
romantic
drama
Saathiya
in
which
he
played
the
role
of
Rani
Mukerji's
husband.
Recently,
in
a
tete-a-tete
with
a
leading
daily,
Vivek
opened
up
about
how
he
was
advised
against
taking
up
Saathiya.
The
actor
revealed
that
everyone
including
his
mentor
Ram
Gopal
Varma
who
launched
him
in
Company,
thought
of
it
as
a
terrible
decision.
Vivek
told
ETimes,
"It
was
really
funny,
because
when
I
made
a
decision
to
do
Saathiya,'everyone,
including
my
mentor
RGV,
was
really
upset
and
told
me
that
it
was
a
terrible
decision.
They
told
me
it's
a
career
killer
and
that
I
was
crazy.
I
had
just
established
myself
as
a
man's
man
and
people
advised
me
to
continue
doing
action
movies."
However,
Vivek
was
adamant
about
doing
the
film
and
continued,
"I
was
an
actor.
I
just
wanted
to
do
every
different
colour
of
cinema.
Saathiya,
to
me,
was
a
really
interesting
challenge.
Shaad
(Ali)
and
I
have
been
friends
for
eons
and
suddenly
he
told
me
that
I
had
to
do
a
film
with
him.
I
saw
the
original,
spoke
to
Mani
sir
and
that
was
it!"
Talking
about
how
Saathiya
changed
people's
perception
about
him
as
an
actor,
Vivek
shared,
"Post
the
success
of
Saathiya,
it
was
very
different
because
then
everybody
started
saying,
'Oh
wow,
you've
done
this,
now
only
do
love
stories,
don't
do
anything
else'.
The
perception,
until
then,
was
that
this
one
guy
does
one
kind
of
cinema,
the
other
guy
does
the
other
kind
of
cinema.
You
don't
mix
the
two.
But
I
didn't
want
to
bind
myself
in
a
stereotype.
And
I
really
enjoyed
coming
out
from
an
extreme
character
like
'Chandu'
to
playing
Aditya
in
Saathiya,
which
was
even
more
difficult
because
there
was
no
homework
I
could
do.
In
the
same
interview,
when
asked
if
regretted
turning
down
any
film,
the
actor
revealed,
"In
the
early
stages,
yes,
there
were
a
few
I
couldn't
end
up
doing.
But
I
guess
every
actor
has
these
films
in
his
career,
which
he
ends
up
not
doing
and
somebody
else
does.
In
my
case,
I
also
got
the
benefit
of
other
actors
not
doing
those
roles.
For
both
Company
and
Saathiya,
I
was
not
the
first
choice.
So,
that
helped
me
make
my
career
too.
Such
things
happen
in
the
industry
all
the
time."
Speaking
about
movies,
Vivek
Oberoi
was
last
seen
in
2019
film
PM
Narendra
Modi.
The
film
was
heavily
panned
by
the
critics
and
the
audience.