There is a lot of intrigue around Arjun Kapoor’s look of a cold-blooded, outrageous, blood-splattered villain in Rohit Shetty’s much-awaited film Singham Again, the third film in the Singham series and the latest addition to Shetty’s cop universe. Arjun says he owes it to Aditya Chopra and Rohit Shetty for believing in his ability to essay negative roles.

“I started my career in the industry by playing characters with negative shades like Ishaqzaade and Aurangzeb and after all these years, I am playing a villain in Singham Again. While Aditya Chopra saw it in me to play flawed characters then, I am thankful to Rohit Shetty for having the belief that I could play an out-and-out villain in his ambitious and much-loved cop universe film. Rohit Shetty instilled faith in me and has been a guide every step of the way. I am grateful that a hit-machine filmmaker like him believes that I could surprise people by playing a villain in Singham Again,” says Arjun who feels that playing the antagonist in this film, which stars Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Tiger Shroff, Akshay Kumar and Ranveer Singh, “feels like a full circle” in his career.