India, April 26 -- Raj Arjun, what was the biggest challenge in portraying your character in Razakar?

Every character gives me a challenge, and every character elevates me. That's what is exciting in this journey. I am in this field because I am always bored by monotonous routines, and I need challenges in my life. If you don't get challenges, you get bored, so I need challenges in my characters. That's why the excitement was there from the moment I was offered the role of Kasim Rizvi. He has a lot of complexity; he is a brutal man, Hitler-like, and a tough character. I thought I could justify it because of my thought process, and that's how I started.

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