When Character and Real lifey mingle

The passion with which people relate to characters can sometimes be confounding to the actor who plays that role. Many Actors have both celebrated and sometimes bemoaned the fact of their portrayed characters overtaking their effort to display them. We need to be conscious of the reality in which they inhibit themselves and not just their characters.

Kunal Nayyar better known by his character persona of  Rajesh Koothrappali from the hit Rom-Com series The Big Bang Theory recently got interviewed by an Indian Newspaper. you would think this is normal enough, him being so famous and all, but here is the catch - the caption of the picture inset said 'Rajesh Koothrappali' with his recently released book. This mistake got shared on social media but was reined in before it got out of hand.

Kunal was quite amused this and in his book Yes, My Accent Is Real released in September 2015, he chronicles the up's and down's of his acting career and what it really means to embody the character of Rajesh Koothrappali, who is the stereotyped opposite to what he actually is.

There was a lot of jovial exchanges both on and off  the TBBT set, when Nayyar married Miss India 2006 winner, Neha Kapur, in December 2011. Nayyar said that it's hilarious how even people near to him call him as Raj instead of his real name. 

Rajesh          vs     Kunal