Ajay avoids image trap

“I am not trying to create any image. I am trying to do different roles. I enjoy doing good work, that’s all,” Ajay said from Mumbai.

Ajay, who says he is not trying to get into an image trap, is quite upbeat about his two forthcoming films.

In tone, temperament and genre both the movies are vastly different — Omkara, based on Shakespeare’s Othello, is poignant and intense while Golmaal is light and funny.

Ajay plays the title role in Vishal Bharadwaj’s much-anticipated Omkara, set in western Uttar Pradesh. He will be seen as a group leader who heads a gang of outlaws. Saif Ali Khan and Viveik Oberoi play his gang-mates and Kareena Kapoor is his love interest in the film.

Director Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal is also a multi-starrer comedy starring, apart from Ajay, Arshad Warsi, Sharman Joshi, Tusshar Kapoor and Paresh Rawal.

“It’s a fun film. It is all about four characters who have nothing to do in life. They just don’t want to do anything in life — not even make money. But at the same time they don’t harm anybody. They are very cute,” said Ajay.

He clarified misconceptions that he plays a college student in the film. “I am not playing a college student. In fact, Sharman is a college student. He is studying medicine.”

Although he has formed a reputation as an intense actor with films like Company, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, GangaaJal and Apaharan, Ajay is equally capable of handling comedy and Golmaal will prove it.