Sahil Salathia reveals what keeps him away from accepting 'All' offers on Indian Television

Sahil Salathia explains why he is picky while choosing roles.

By Rasika Deshpande

Updated on Jul 27, 2017 | 10:47 AM IST | 3.4M

Indian Television is turning regressive, says a major chunk of not just the viewers but also the insiders of the glam world. Not many of us would disagree with the fact that the Indian television industry is degrading in its quality of content. There have been several occasions, where viewers have complained about the absurd and stupid content they are fed with. Super-model turned actor Sahil Salathia too is of the same view because of which he has not been able to accept any offers on television after his last show, Nikkhil Advani's POW where he played the antagonist. Sahil, as an actor, believes in doing quality content. The actor is very picky when it comes to the roles that he chooses to play. He has worked with two of the best directors in the industry Ashutosh Gowarikar (Everest where he played a protagonist) and Nikkhil Advani (POW Bandhi Yudh Ke ..where he played an antagonist and got rave reviews).

Apparently, Sahil underwent a huge transformation for his role in POW. He had then worked on changing his entire look from a boy-next-door to a rugged terrorist, the face of jihad. Sahil, while elaborating over the same, said, "It's amazing that you all notice the transformation from Arjun to Yussuf! Yussuf needed me to be a little beefy with a super thick messy beard! Yussuf is always with his Surma on, has green eyes and keeps quite a few guns handy all the time! (laughs) But that's him! And he speaks in a certain way considering he is from Pakistan and is obviously, not an urban Pakistani so, I had to work on the language since he does use a lot of Urdu, of course!" He further said, "For Everest, I had to go really lean since Mountaineers have very low-fat percentage in their bodies and Arjun was a world class mountaineer, hence, he had to be super lean and flexible but in POW, Yussuf loves his meat biryani too much and is as masculine as you get them, he has his fat and muscle intact. I weigh about 75 kgs here which is quite beefy!"

Other than these two television series/shows, he played the lead role of an HIV positive patient in 'There will be tomorrow', a festival film which won several awards across the film festival circuit and also made his Hollywood debut recently in the movie 'The Heartbeats' by Duane Adler.