‘I’m a selfish artist’- Divyenndu – Exclusive | – Times of India

Divyenndu began his journey into films with Luv Ranjan’s Pyaar Ka Punchnama as Liquid, but the man tasted solo success with Munna Bhaiya from Mirzapur. And since then, he hasn’t looked back. His character’s death in the second season, created a huge uproar with many fans coming up with theories of how he will return in the third season of the show, but he didn’t, and everyone thought that is the end. However, the makers of the show pulled out a trump card and shared that they will be turning the show into a film and in the announcement teaser one got a glimpse of Divyenndu as Munna Bhaiyaa once again.

Now in an exclusive interview with ETimes, he shared how the film came about. He said, “People wanted it, and now they will have it. There are some projects that you do for your audience and for someone like me, I’m a selfish artist, I do things for myself and not for anyone else. But Mirzapur is one such project – when I heard about the film… I immediately said yes …my thought was our audiences want it ..let’s just give it to them ..they will enjoy it, and will relish it.The script is in the works right now ..whatever little I’ve heard about the film… it is very interesting… I’m sure people will like it.”
The Mirzapur film would be the fifth time Divyenndu would be collaborating with Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s production house after Mirzapur 1, 2, Madgaon Express and Agni. Talking about his experience of working with two of them he said, “ They both are lovely people and they work on merit, and that is the best part. They don’t work on any preconceived notion about anyone, they respect you as an artist , they respect your voice, and they are very democratic, its not like there is some big boss sitting in the studio… we have a very friendly vibe with each other, but have a lot of respect for each other too.”