Bollywood's brightest often state that they turn to personal experiences for inspiration, to breathe life into their characters. For Prateik Babbar, recounting memories from his troubled past - that admittedly involved an addiction to drugs - helped him play the antagonist in Mulk.

"I hung around with the wrong people and did all the wrong things that I could possibly do. I took inspiration from that phase of my life to play this character," the actor tells mid-day of his role of a terrorist in the Rishi Kapoor and Taapsee Pannu starrer.