Pankaj on being excluded from Fukrey 2 poster

Actor

Pankaj Tripathi

is in a bittersweet situation, on one side he lost his father and on the other he won the Best Supporting Actor National Film Award for his performance in Mimi. He also delivered back to back hits in OMG 2 and

Fukrey

3. The actor recently recalled a conversation with a big distributor who told him that he is now becoming a saleable face.
Speaking to Lallantop,

Pankaj

mentioned that today, a lot of people talk about box office, but for him films only fall in two categories - either they are good or bad.

He recalled that a very big distributor mentioned to him that after a string of his successful films, he has now become a saleable face at the box office, to which he replied that he doesn’t understand that but only believes in giving good performances.

Pankaj Tripathi also recalled his experience of working in the second installment of Fukrey franchise back in 2017. He mentioned that on the poster, the makers had put a tiger instead of him. He explained that the tiger used in the poster was created by

VFX

, but the tiger does not have to make a career in Bollywood, unlike him. So the makers could have used his photo instead, he believed. But he left everything on time.
The

National Award

winning actor also recalled an incident when his name was printed in the newspaper saying he is part of Hrithik Roshan’s Lakshya, but unfortunately, his scene was deleted from the film. He felt bad that people would feel he was lying. He also added that cinema is a lie where one makes up stories to show on screen, but he refrains from lying in real life.