It is easy for actors to get boxed in unless they have the hunger to break out, says actor Pulkit Samrat, calling himself lucky for the support he received from directors like Bejoy Nambiar and Karan Anshuman, who offered him roles against his romantic hero image. Pulkit has reteamed with Anshuman of Mirzapur and Inside Edge fame for Netflix's upcoming boxing thriller Glory, a role that required him to go through intense physical training.

He earlier worked with the director for Bangistan in 2015. "Actors get boxed into a zone, genre and particular performance. To get out of that, you need to have the hunger to do something different and the support of people like Karan Anshuman and Bejoy Nambiar who managed to look at me and say that he is not just a romantic hero or a chocolate boy but he can also be an angry young man and for Karan to feel that he can be a boxer and have the emotional depth," the actor told PTI in an interview here.