is on his way to a shoot in Poland after a week’s work in London and a short stop in his home country India when he sits down for a chat with Deadline.The veteran actor’s schedule is the result of a late-career renaissance, which he recently kicked off with an acclaimed performance in Aparna Sen’s latest film,Produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Quest Films Pvt.
“When I read the script, it just hit me. I thought it was such a wonderful and hard-hitting take on what actually happens to a victim of rape,” he says of the film, which is yet to be released worldwide. “Aparna is a wonderful and very sensitive filmmaker. I think when this film is finally released it will be special.”
Rampal has also recently completed work on new films by Abbas Mustan and Sunny Leone and set his South Indian movie debut with, the latest big-budget flick from Pawan Kalyan. After several delays due to labor strikes in the Telugu film industry, the film has just resumed shooting in Hyderabad, India.
“It was fantastic to see the unity they have amongst each other in the South,” Rampal says of the strikes. “The pandemic changed a lot of things and they wanted to regroup and put certain rules and guidelines down.” Rampal’s move down South after 21 years of working in Mumbai’s Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as, films from the South Indian film industries, such as thehave been breaking box office records in India and overseas. Conversely, only a small number of Hindi-language films — namely,