I Had To Sit At Home As I Was Getting Terrible Movie Offers: Dino Morea

Mumbai: Actor Dino Morea, who celebrated his 49th birthday on Monday, is returning to the big screen with a Hindi feature film after 15 years.

Dino, who last featured in the 2010 movie ‘Pyaar Impossible’, did web shows, some South films and cameos in Hindi films after that, but didn’t star in a main role in any Hindi film.

“I was not getting good offers to do good films, that is the truth. There were really some terrible movies being offered, and I am not exaggerating. If I would have done those films, I would have dug my grave even deeper. So, I decided it would be better if I do something else to survive and maintain a standard. I had a gut feeling which that told me not to pick up those projects. The offers were coming, and I am not a fool to say I don’t want to do films, neither was I taking a break, but consciously I had to sit at home and work on my skills because the offers were not great,” Dino was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.

“There are a lot of insecurities that you go through. When I said no to the films, I also had this saying from our industry running through my mind ‘out of sight, out of mind’. People questioned my absence, and I would feel at days ‘should I just take up those subpar projects just to be seen?’ But if I had done those films and it wouldn’t have worked, people would have called me a flop actor. There were insecurities, there were a lot of trying times in my life at the time when I was just questioning myself what could I do next because films is all I know. That’s why in between I started production also because I wanted to stay close to the industry,” he revealed.

The actor said a person becomes wiser with age.

“As you grow older, you far more evolved, you understand relationships better, you understand life better and people better. You want to give yourself more time and you want to enjoy time as much as possible and maximise it as much as possible,” Dino said.

Talking about relationships and marriage, Dino, who played a single dad in the web show ‘Mentalhood’, said, “Your understanding that time is so valuable becomes so much more as you get a little older because then you realise ki faltu mein time waste nahi karna hai (don’t waste time). If you are meeting someone, that person has to have some impact in your life, or you have some impact in their life. I don’t want to waste time. I’d rather give time to people who love me, who I love, who enjoy my company and whose company I enjoy, rather than wasting it.”

Asked if he would prefer to be a single dad, he remarked, “No, I want to find a partner at some point nearby. I’d love to have children as I love children. In a few days, I might change my mind, find a Wife, a partner and have kids, you never know. And when that happens, I’ll be announcing it.”