Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar, who is playing the character of a terrorist in the upcoming multi-starrer film Mulk, says youngsters tend to get brainwashed and misguided easily and as he is growing mature, he is becoming wiser and a better creative person by heart.

Asked if he has taken some reference from his own life to play the character of Shahid, a young Muslim boy, Prateik told IANS: "I went through an internal process to build the character in my head before performing it and yes, I took some reference from my own life. "The character Shahid is a misguided youth, like I was, for the different reason. The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily."