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Dev Patel Feels Less Like A Hero After Lion
Dev Patel says he wrote a piece in his diary about the word hero, says he doesn't feel like a hero after doing the film Lion.
Celebrated Hollywood actor of Indian origin, Dev Patel states that he doesn't feel like a hero and particularly a Bollywood hero after he finished filming his upcoming film titled Lion.
The actor said that he had to travel to a lot of places in India, which helped him reconnect with his roots. He also understood the value of human emotions and culture here. And this made him feel more like an ordinary human and not a hero.
"I wrote a piece in my diary about the word hero, because you know the Bollywood stars when they are in public in India people call them hero, so they would call out hero to me, and I'm like, I wrote this thing in my diary about feeling less like a hero than ever before," Said Dev in a statement.
Dev stated that sometimes he also felt odd and out of place when people in India addressed him as a hero while shooting for the film.
The actor who also had to visit numerous orphanages in India, while preparing for the role of Saroo Brierley, the Indian boy who gets lost at a train station and later gets adopted by an Australian family
He also praised the child actor Sunny Pawar who has featured in most of the part in the movie.
"Most of the screen time is Sunny. He leads for over an hour. I guess for marketing purposes I'm on the posters. But that's no detriment to him because he is amazing. An impossible act to follow actually." Stated Dev.
The film is scheduled for release on February 24 in India.
