MUMBAI : Vijay Varma has been on a career-high, thanks to his spectacular performance in Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy. The actor has been a lot of directors' hot favourite since then. He, however, wishes to reinvent himself. In a recent interview with Mid-Day, the actor opened up on his ups and downs and how he was extremely frustrated at one point in time. It was after Vijay lost out his role in Netflix's popular show Sacred Games, which was apparently because of Anurag Kashyap's last-minute decision. He also revealed being this close to getting roped in for films like 3 Idiots and Love Sex Aur Dhokha; however, things didn't materialise.

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Recalling the Sacred Games incident, Vijay told, "They had locked me for one of the parts, one of the significant parts, and Netflix and Mukesh (Chhabra, casting director), and everyone had zeroed in, but Anurag (Kashyap, co-director) changed his mind last minute and he threw me out.” There is, however, no bad blood between the two. In an earlier interview with India Today, he had said, "I can’t call him a mentor or a friend, it is just that he is one director I admire the most. I look up to his work. I think this industry owes a lot to his mind and his capabilities."

"The way he finds talent is incomparable. He has been a well-wisher. He has promised that he will work with me soon as a director, but that is yet to be fulfilled," added Vijay.

Vijay was further lauded by Kashyap for his performance in Bamfaad, which was presented by Kashyap himself. “Vijay and I started our careers with the same films like Chittagong and Monsoon Shootout, in which he was the lead and I was the producer. When I saw the first cut of Bamfaad, I immediately called up Vijay and told him that with this role, a new aspect of him has come out. I think it’s one of the best approaches to a performance by an actor,” told the filmmaker to IANS.

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