The transformation from a city dweller to a village lad

My roles in my first two movies – Jindra and Saunhmitti di – portrayed me as a villager and I needed to undertake a lot of hard work in order to imbibe the persona of the villager. This is because I was born and raised in Delhi and did not have very strong ties with my village in Punjab.

My roots go back to the village Padora in district Hoshiarpur in Punjab and we still had some relatives living there. There was a little farming being done also although not much. Then thought of dressing up for a village visit never occurred to me and I thought of wearing my dark green turban which represented the green of the fields of Punjab. As KirandeepRayat I visited Punjab many times, but this time was different because it was a learning journey.

This is why from among my hundred or so turbans I chose all the green ones for my visit. It may seem odd to people that I chose turban according to the place that I was visiting. But I had always been very fond of turbans and hence had a large collection.

I also love colours of all kinds and that is why I have turbans of different colours. So during my visit to Punjab for the second time for my second film – saunhmitti di – I had to imbibe the persona of a Punjabi farmer.

In Punjab farmers were not poor and downtrodden as they are in some other states. In spite of this there is a simplicity and typical persona that the farmers in Punjab carry with them. They too have dreams and experience emotions like city dwellers, but their way of doing so is quite different.

So it was this difference that I wanted to understand for playing the part of a farmer in my second film saunhmitti di. I was mesmerised by the lovely green fields and this was the harvesting season when I visited PAdora.

The community there welcomed me with open arms because by now many of the people knew me as KirandeepRayat Punjabi actor due to the success of my first film Jindra. I enjoyed the walks in the fields and mixing up with the farmers as they went about their work in the fields.

I visited some villages other than Padora also in order to understand the different nuances of culture and language. Soon I was ready to go back and take on the role of the farmer in my second film.  

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