MUMBAI: Namik Paul is the heartthrob of the television industry.  He rose to fame with Ek Duje Ke Vaaste as Shravan Malhotra. He was later seen as Shiv Kapoor in Ek Deewana Tha. Then, he was a part of supernatural serial Kavach... Maha Shivratri, where he essayed the role of Angad.

Then he played a completely different character in Kasautii Zindagi Kay as Viraj. For the first time, he played a negative role and was highly applauded for his performance by viewers.

His pairing with all his co-stars was loved by fans.

Team TellyChakkar got in touch with Namik and asked him the similarities he sees in his characters and his real life.

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To which, the actor said that the characters were pretty different from each other, but the one similarity they shared and that is similar to his life is the love and care they had for their family.

He further said that Shiv and Angad were unrealistic characters in the sense of being very nice, whereas Sharavan had his good and bad points.

We further asked him whether it was challenging to play Viraj in Kasautii Zindagi Kay, to which the actor said that it wasn’t difficult at all because his previous characters Shravan and Angad had a bit of grey in them with the things they did.

Namik also said it gives the actor a little bit of freedom to act as one is planning and plotting and gives a lot of scope for performance, and he enjoyed doing something different, for which he was loved by fans.

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