Mumbai June 18 (IANS) Actor Ashutosh Rana has completed shooting for four films in the past six months making a grand comeback of sorts into Bollywood. He says it was high time he returned as people had started questioning him about "vanishing" from the industry.
Ashutosh has been working a lot in the southern film industry for the past few years. Now he has seven big Bollywood releases in a span of the next two years. The projects include Dharma Productions "Dhadak" Anubhav Sinha s "Mulk" Abhishek Chaubey s "Sonchiraiya" Tigmanshu Dhulia s "Milan Talkies" Rohit Shetty s "Simmba" Ismail Darbar s "Tigdum" and Shekhar Sirrin s "Chicken Curry Law".
On working in back-to-back projects Ashutosh said in a statement to IANS: "In a party I met someone who said that I have vanished from the industry and it wasn t like that. I have been working in the south industry and a film in Bollywood at regular intervals.
"I guess that comment hit a nerve and I decided to make an imprint here again and I took up the projects. There is lot of work in the south but I guess it was high time to jump back. So I completed everything in one shot."
Perhaps he found a comfort in southern film projects.
"Directors in the south industry don t typecast you and let you explore as an actor. And along with us they also think out-of-the-box and are keen on exploring and pushing you beyond the limit. Whereas here (in Bollywood) after doing larger than life characters in Sangharsh and Dushman people couldn t think of anything else for me " said the actor whose last Hindi film was "Brothers".

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