MUMBAI: Actor Vijay Varma, known for his stellar roles in films such "Gully Boy", "Darlings" as well as web series "Dahaad" and "IC: 814 - The Kandahar Hijack", says his metamorphosis as an artist is a continuous process. Varma said he no longer connects to certain parts of his younger self. "I think I have (come of age) and it is continuing to happen.
I don't connect with my 15-year-old self or the 21-year-old me anymore. Certain parts of me I have completely forgotten. Things like that happen," the actor told PTI.
Varma likened this process of change to software updates. "So I feel at different stages in your life, with different experiences behind you, you tend to grow and evolve into another kind of a version of you. So that metamorphosis is continuing to happen," the actor said at the Magnum lounge on the sidelines of the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) X FDCI here.
As someone with an "androgynous body type", Varma is experimental with his style and is at ease with wearing flared pants as well as going shirtless in a suit. "These are like trial and error experiments and I found it to be flattering for my body and then played along with it. I think it started with theatre when I was doing plays back in Hyderabad and Pune (at Film and Television Institute of India) where I was studying.
"There were few roles for a batch of 20 actors and I would often take opportunities to show up on the stage even if it is one entry of one song and I have to dress up like a street perform.
