I was a loner in school: Riteish

Mumbai, October 04: It wasn’t difficult for Riteish Deshmukh to play a shy lad in Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Aladin’ as he says he was very much like his onscreen character during his own school days.

‘Aladin’, which releases on October 30, is produced by Eros International and Sujoy Ghosh and is a contemporary look at the classic fairy tale, where Riteish plays the title character.

“When Sujoy told me that I play a young, introverted boy in Aladin, I could perfectly relate to it as I was myself a very quiet boy during my school days. I didn’t have many friends and would mostly keep to myself,” Riteish, son of Union Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, told reporters here.
–PTI