Bobby Deol revealed that his father, Dharmendra, couldn’t bear watching Aashram, the MX Player show in which Bobby plays a criminal godman. Dharmendra had had a similar experience with his own mother, who had become enraged at him for playing a villain in one of his films.
Bobby told Bollywood Hungama that he couldn’t remember which film it was, but that his grandmother scolded Dharmendra after walking out of the film during a trial screening.
“Papa mujhe mile Aashram ke baad. Maine bola ‘Papa aapne dekha?’ Bolte ‘Beta, main tujhe aise nahi dekh sakta. Main samajhta hoon ke tu actor hai, main bhi chahta tha ke alag alag character karoon.’ (I met dad after Aashram, and asked if he’d seen it. He said, ‘I can’t watch you like this, I understand you’re an actor, I wanted to do different roles as well…)’”
Dharmendra then told Bobby about how his mother was upset with him for playing a villain. “Aadhe mein aagayi, aur ghar aayi toh mujhe daanta, ke tune aisa character kaise play kiya (She walked out midway through, and when I got back home, she scolded me).”
The actor stated that no mother can see their child as the antagonist and that his own mother, Prakash Kaur, did not approve. Spoiler alert: his character in Love Hostel, Dagar, is killed at the end. She didn’t even like Aashram and told him afterwards, ‘Haye haye, tune aisa role kiya (My goodness, how could you do such a role)?”
Bobby plays a murderous hitman out to restore balance to his vision of what society should be in ZEE5’s Love Hostel. Shanker Raman directed the film, which also stars Sanya Malhotra and Vikrant Massey.
