‘It is okay to be boxed’, says Sunil Grover

Star stand-up comedian and actor Sunil Grover, who has tickled the funny bone of many with his witty one-liners and expressions on screen, is fine with being boxed as he sees it as acceptance and not getting limited. “It is okay to be boxed. I am fine with it because eventually people will box you with what they see and like. Boxing also means acceptance — that they accept you in a certain way...,” Sunil said.

The 43-year-old comedian also revealed that when he was offered Vishal Bhardwaj’s comedy drama Pataakha in 2018 he did not have anything else. He added: “But sometimes destiny has plans for you, which are beyond your control, like when Pataakha was offered to me I did not have anything else. I was off television and it was a great offer. So, I said ‘okay, let’s do it’.”

Sunil shared that soon more work followed such as the Salman Khan-starrer Bharat and the web-series Taandav. “Those were roles which I had thought would not come my way and they started coming... Forget the roles, the mediums also changed...I was kind of not prepared or I had not planned,” he said.

Sunil, whose latest web-series Sunflower was appreciated by critics and audiences alike, said he feels like a newcomer. — IANS