South star Kamal Haasan, who plays the antagonist in “Kalki 2898 AD”, says he was craving to play a bad man on the screen and is glad he got the opportunity through the futuristic drama.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the film features top movie stars like Amitabh Bachchan as the immortal Ashwatthama and Prabhas as Bhairava, an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
Haasan plays the role of Supreme Yaskin in “Kalki 2898 AD”, directed by Nag Ashwin. The film also stars Deepika Padukone as Sumathi.
“I was (telling) backstage to Amit ji (Bachchan) about how I always wanted to play a bad man because the bad man gets to do all the good things. Where the heroes are singing romantic songs and waiting for the heroine, he (bad guy) can just go ahead and do what he wants.
“I thought I’m going to play the bad man so it’s going to be fun. But then, he (Ashwin) wanted it to be different. I’m almost like a sage in the film with a bad idea,” Haasan told reporters here at a promotional event of the film on Wednesday.