Typecast, No! Activist, Yes! There is More to Arjun Mathur
As a young Delhi boy, he decided to go into films, has done 35 projects till date, has arrived on the OTT platform as a star, with his recently released ‘Made in Heaven’, holds all promise to strike into the big league with his down to earth thinking. In a free-wheeling conversation, Arjun shares his beliefs, his ideas on going forward, most of all, as a human being. You are a leading star on OTT platforms and a great champion for LGBTQ causes in both your series. How has the response been to LGBTQ as a subject, in your understanding through your films and also generally on OTT? This is the third time in my career that I played a gay character. The first time was in fact my very debut back in 2007. And back then there were no references whatever. There was no representation of the community that had been done accurately before that, other than in Deepa Mehta’s Fire, just the odd film here and there, which was considered extremely arthouse at the time. Other than those in mainstream cin