Randeep Hooda Says Bollywood Feels Threatened by Him, Gets No Credit for Extraction or Highway

Randeep Hooda Says Bollywood Feels Threatened by Him: Randeep Hooda, having landed his first-ever Hollywood role, shared screen space with Avengers star Chris Hemsworth in Joe Russo and Anthony Russo's Extraction, where Randeep had an impactful role and had good screen space, although in a recent interaction he said that the Hindi film industry completely ignored the praise of his powerful character while the South filmmakers applauded him.

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Speaking to Shubhankar Mishra, he said, “I didn’t get any appreciation from Bollywood but people who watched Extraction lauded me. I had various fan moments.”

Bollywood ignored him, said Randeep, while filmmakers from the South praised his work. “When I worked with filmmakers in the Telugu cinema…many action directors have seen the film and want to emulate the same and they even ask me how we did it in Extraction. That sense of respect is there. But nobody talked about it. Even for small roles in Hollywood films people do so much campaign and people also congratulate them,” he said.

In a way, he feels his PR could be stronger; the other truth is that people wielding in his success feel that there is an element of danger. “I feel people feel threatened and I didn’t get appreciation from film fraternity for any role and I don’t need it after a point of time. I am doing my work and trying to better myself and not compete with myself. I appreciate myself,” he said.

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He added, “I don’t know why people didn’t appreciate me publicly. But I am not sad about it. When they meet, they meet nicely and they will call me but they don’t talk about it publicly. I also didn’t get any big award for acting.”

The Extraction was not well received by critics but proceeded to become the most-watched original film on Netflix, along with Golshifteh Farahani, Pankaj Tripathi, and David Harbour, in pivotal roles.

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