Riteish has doubts about `honest journalists`

Mumbai: Actor Riteish Deshmukh says he was perplexed when filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma narrated his role of an honest and sincere journalist in his media-based film "Rann". "Ramu (Varma) narrated the role to me. He said you have to play an honest, sincere and fair journalist in my film. And my first reaction was, `I hope this is not a fictitious character`," Riteish told reporters.

"I agree there are loads of people in the media today who take up issues and use the medium to bring justice, as also bring in a certain sensibility among society, but a lot of them don`t. Facts are blown out of proportion and a lot of them survive on rumours. "So I had my doubts about how real my character is. But the experience of shooting for the film was great," he added. `Rann` also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Purab Kohli as well as Gul Panag. IANS