This Article is From May 15, 2011

Acting Is A Nightmare: Nikhil Chinapa

Highlights

  • He is set to make his Bollywood debut in Anurag Kashyap's much hyped production Shaitan but Nikhil Chinapa says that the thriller will be his first and last silver screen outing.
  • The MTV VJ says that acting is a "nightmare" and never wants to say another dialogue in his life again.
  • "I hate acting. Takes, re-takes, make up, rehearsing the lines, I just don't understand all of this. Its a nightmare," Chinapa told PTI.
  • The 37-year-old, who is also a DJ and says music is his passion, finds acting boring and only said 'yes' to Shaitan because he liked director Bejoy Nambiar.
New Delhi: He is set to make hisBollywood debut in Anurag Kashyap's much hyped productionShaitan but Nikhil Chinapa says that the thriller will behis first and last silver screen outing.

The MTV VJ says that acting is a "nightmare" and neverwants to say another dialogue in his life again.

"I hate acting. Takes, re-takes, make up, rehearsingthe lines, I just don't understand all of this. Its anightmare," Chinapa told PTI.

The 37-year-old, who is also a DJ and says music ishis passion, finds acting boring and only said 'yes' toShaitan because he liked director Bejoy Nambiar.

"DJ'ing comes naturally to me, I don't get anythingabout acting. I never wanted to act, I am happy playing musicbut when Bejoy approached me, I liked him as a person and didthe movie for him," said Chinapa.

Nambiar's directorial debut Shaitan revolves arounda group of four friends whose life change for the worse duringthe course of a drunken night-out.

The film, starring Kalki Koechlin, Rajeev Khandelwal,Shiv Pandit and Arshad Warsi, releases on June 1.
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