There's much more longevity in comedy acting career, says Vir Das

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Comedian-actor Vir Das says he does not see anything wrong in comics being typecast in films and that there is more longevity in a comedians acting career. Asked if he feels Bollywood typecasts comedians in films, Vir told IANS: "I dont think that is just specific to Hindi cinema. It is specific to all cinema. Comedians are always typecast as comical in movies and series. I don't see anything wrong with that." He added: "If you can add layers to that and make it a performance that works for you and as yoru fan base or experience begins to grow comedians can branch out." 

Vir, who will be seen in Netflix's upcoming show "Losing It", said that comedians can also branch out to other genres. "Someone like Eddy Murphy or Ben Stiller or Anupam Kher or Boman Irani -- these are people who started out with comedy but have been able to do dramatic work, negative and positive work. So, I think there is much more longevity in a comedy acting career than the sexy boy acting career," he said.

On the Bollywood front, Vir will start shooting for the second installment of the "Go Goa Gone" franchise in 2019. The film 

featured Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Kemmu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari and Puja Gupta in lead roles. Vir talking about the sequel of the film said that it is going to be better and crazier than the original. The film will be once again helmed by director duo Raj Nidimoru, and Krishna DK.

"We just had a meeting. It was wonderful. We all kind of realised 'I missed you a lot in the last four years now let's go and make this movie'. None of us expected 'Go Goa Gone' to be the cult film that it turned out to be. We were just making a film with passion and we hoped that somebody would get it and somebody would watch it,'' he said.

(With IANS inputs)