Actors like me don`t get appreciation we deserve:Kay Kay Menon

Mumbai, Feb 12: Bollywood actor Kay Kay Menon, known for serious and offbeat roles, rues that actors like him and Irrfan Khan do not get the appreciation they deserve for their success. "When actors like Irrfan and me succeed, people try to find out reasons as to why we have succeeded," he told reporters when asked whether the multiplex revolution had helped screen artists like him to create a niche of their own.

"Whatever opportunities we have received, we have earned them and would have got them irrespective of any other reason (multiplex revolution in this case)," he said. "People have to understand that a good actor will eventually find his way through," Menon said. On whether he regretted doing `Drona`, in which his portrayal of villain Riz Raizada has not gone down well with critics, the actor replied in the negative. "People are not used to seeing a comical villain. They have compartmentalised the characters into extremes. If the character is comic it`s got to be Johny Lever and if it is a villainous one, it should be Amrish Puri. But I don`t blame them." "The important thing is the consistency of the character and my character was consistently `high-pitched` through out the film. It`s perfectly fine with me," Menon said. Bureau Report