Shweta Tiwari Says Fans Will Question Her ‘Small Role’ in Singham Again: ‘I Wanted to Be…’ | Exclusive

About 12 years after her last big screen outing, Shweta Tiwari is all set to return to celluloid with Rohit Shetty’s much-anticipated film, Singham Again. Earlier this year, she marked her first collaboration with the director in the Prime Video series Indian Police Force. At the trailer launch event of the same, she revealed that Singham Again will see her playing an officer. Now, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, she shares that she knows the audience would question her ‘small role’ in it considering she has always played the lead in television.

But she couldn’t resist the temptation of being a part of Rohit’s cop universe. “I’m playing an intelligence officer under Ajay (Devgn) sir in Singham Again. It was a very nice experience. I’ve finished the shoot. I know that people will once again point out that I have a very small role in it. But I wanted to be a part of the cop universe. I wanted to be seen with so many actors in a movie. I look at it as a very good thing,” she tells us.

Lauding Rohit, Shweta adds, “He’s very focused and knows what he’s doing. He has complete command over his work. No one can manipulate him into doing something he doesn’t want to. He also isn’t someone who would give in to a star’s tantrums.”

Shweta refers to Singham Again as a ‘restart’ of sorts for herself and says she began her successful career as a television actor with small parts as well. “You’ve to take baby steps. Ektaa (R Kapoor) had also spotted me in a small role in a show I did for Doordarshan and then offered me Kasautii Zindagi Kay. It was very sweet of her. To date, I believe that if you have the talent, put that into making a character memorable rather than craving for popularity. And I’ve never bothered about what people will say,” she states.

The offer to essay a small role in the Indian Police Force didn’t bog her down either. “I’m the first contestant from Khatron Ke Khiladi that Rohit sir offered a project to. Indian Police Force was about police persons but they also needed an actor to play a pretty and simple housewife who doesn’t need to do any action. I knew my fans said, ‘Why did Shweta do such a small role?’ But these things don’t matter to me,” points out the Parvarrish actor.

Shweta divulges that it is Salman Khan’s career trajectory that has taught her ‘to not be so rigid’ and ‘jo achcha lage woh karo’ has become her mantra. She says, “Look at Salman Khan! He has done other kinds of films too that don’t fit into the prototype of mainstream cinema. And he’s still ‘The Salman Khan’. Even if he has a small role in a film, people go to watch him. I never had this thought that I would only play lead roles. If I thought this way, I would’ve sat at home for five years.”