sometimes it's not necessary for you to
know how it's going to happen but it's
very necessary for you to believe that
it's going to happen if you believe that
it's going to happen is when the how
takes care of itself
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okay first of all I must thank you so
much for agreeing to do this we've have
absolutely enraptured audience we're all
looking forward to this they want to
decode this Enigma called Wiki kosher it
seems like a mysterious uh and and yet
such such a draw that you have over
especially the youngsters it's something
absolutely breathtaking so the uh the
theme of the event is the stories we
tell also tell us so we want to know
your story was it an unlikely one I mean
could you take us back to the few days
of engineering and then how have you
journeyed how it all started off because
I know that it you know we're also with
an industrial event if I'm not wrong a
lightning struck I would actually like
to take the story a little further back
oh lovely for two years of my life I
have stood at the bus stop right here I
was a midi by student oh wow
okay
so two years of my life I have stood at
this bus stop I was a science student so
my classes used to be from 7 7 30 to one
o'clock in the afternoon and I used to
stand at the bus stop over here wait for
79 33 38 these were the three buses that
used to take me home and I want to know
how much does the water power cost over
here now it's pretty steep now it's
pretty steep 30.
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20.
so when I was when I was doing my junior
college in vitibai this was 2001 to
2003. by the way when was the last time
you had a what about what about I keep
having what up I won't say it yeah yeah
I called for buttercups but uh in 2001
to 2003 I was in mitibai
and that time the varapa used to be of
five rupees
five rupees so uh I've started from here
right and uh then of course I did my
engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Institute
of Technology
till that time I'm still that guy but
I've always believed in living in the
present going with the flow and just
being completely honest to what I'm
doing now the plan was to do post
graduation I was good in studies but I
was very active on stage since childhood
but never really thought that I want to
make it a career choice right so when I
was doing my engineering in the second
year the college faculty took us to an
industrial visit to show us this is your
future you know when you pass out you
complete your graduation
this is how an MNC looks this is how the
work
all right whatever the floor looks and
how people work so that was the first
time I started introspecting as to what
do you want to do so the answer was
performing performing for the audience
the rule was in the family that first
you have to finish graduation you have
to finish it well I had a blast doing my
engineering I finished that and then in
2009 is when I started my journey as an
actor okay yeah okay so that's that's
how it all began uh
as audience we always like to look at
the Glory Days of an actor of of how
he's doing well and all the success and
Fanfare that he's enjoying but failures
is something that we don't talk about
like everyone has a good share of it uh
was it a very was it a straight Story
Journey because I because if I'm not
wrong you started off with assisting on
a rug and then your first break uh so
was it a straightforward Journey
how did you take failures it was a
straightforward Journey but
of course I wanted to learn acting of
course I wanted to learn the skills but
more than that I just wanted to be sure
that if I made to act every day
am I a happier Soul or am I a cribbing
about it that's what I really wanted to
know
so I did that and by the end of it I got
my answer that I really really love
doing this
after that I was also sure I remember I
was 22. back then right after
engineering I was 22. I was in no hurry
to be in front of the camera right
because I knew that firstly camera
captures everything you're a good actor
bad actor fantastic actor worst actor it
will present you the way you are because
in acting your eyes have to be honest
and the cap the camera captures
everything the audience in two seconds
of sitting in that Cinema Hall in that
first shot you're given that first scene
that you do they know that if you can
act or no and once they've made that
judgment it's a very uphill task to
really prove your words to the audience
so I wanted to do all of that before
actually coming to the audience you're
very patient so I I had kept I had kept
five years in my mind to learn the
tropes to make people learn from them
assist them do backstage in theater do
everything that is related to cinema and
acting learn all that I can before I'm
fairly even confident to face the camera
and come in front of the audience
so it's very strange because when I was
doing that acting course in 2009 I still
remember the date was
24th of July 2009 and it was the first
day of my acting course and
the teacher it was it was class of 20 20
students and they just randomly asked
like you know okay how have your five
last five years been like and we were
all discussing that and then they asked
that do you want your next five years to
be like and where do you see yourself in
the next five years and I really am not
a big fan of this question because I
don't know what I'm going to do in the
next five minutes and I really don't
want to know what I'm going to where I'm
going to be sometimes where you think
you're going to be in the next five
years is much smaller than what God has
black for you so I don't want to limit
myself in the in that thought process
but still
so but I was asked that I'll do theater
I'll assist somebody I'll do behind the
scene work and I'll I'll be there this
was 24 July 2009 and 24th July 2015 was
the day when masan released and my
poster was there on a cinema it's
exactly five years and it's just
sometimes things like these make me uh
belief in belief like believe in belief
that you know okay you just have to
sometimes just just give it out there
just give it out and do it like you know
sometimes it's not necessary for you to
know how it's gonna happen but it's very
necessary for you to believe that it's
going to happen
if you believe that it's going to happen
is when the how takes care of itself so
I mean you guys are going to start and
do whatever you want to do in life but
never never lose that belief that's
that's step one before skill before
Talent before everything else that's
step one
great that's that and I also want to
give a disclaimer that I tend to forget
my questions and I go on a different
trip so just get me back whenever you
want to do with the failure part failure
yes yes I saw it was very important
because when you look at the youngsters
of course they are very bad at accepting
rejection and and failure is something
that rattles them yeah so I think it's
equally important how you receive
failure because that's going to happen
at some point of time so what was how
did you receive failure because there
are a lot of people who look up to you
and I feel failures must rattle you I
feel they must rattle you they must
shake you up because it's only something
good that comes out of it failure I feel
is
is also one of the beginning stages for
Success right uh people say that
persistence and perseverance are the two
tricks for success
but I feel failure has also got to do a
big part in that right what kind of
acting do
you think that there is something called
as a classical acting style there's
method acting or do you think it's just
these distinctions don't really I don't
really believe in one one approach
towards acting because I feel at the end
of the day between action and cut I have
to be honest my goal is to reach that
Honesty no matter how I reach that
different films different characters
depending on how far or near that
character is to you you you decide on
your route for me it's my world it's
that character's world so I need to know
my world in the film so between takes
sometimes it's just knowing sometimes
for me as an actor it's more of knowing
um the space most of the times it's
bonding with your co-actors
because depends again on how your
relationship in the film is like me and
tapsi from an emergency we would
like we were practically living together
like it was almost like we were on set
together the entire time because that
that had to come across in the film or
be it me and Ranbir and Sanju we would
our workshop for the film was for like
30 to 40 days before we started shooting
it was just me Ranbir and Raju sir
sitting at his office for hours at stage
and faffing
that's it faffing just faffing but it
was just faffing because the energy that
we have while we fast that is the energy
that we wanted in the film between those
two characters it is what the audience
always remembers what's between those
lines in real life it's not what we
speak that matters it's what we not
speak what we hold back is makes me
makes you you who you are so I need to
know
what I said as that part and what are
the things that I didn't say as the part
but which was there in my head so you
need to bond with your co-actors need to
know them gel with them so all of that
is going on with your team because at
the end of the day it's a team effort
you know the set has to be a happy set
it has to be a nice and people should
enjoy working together the important
thing is to just keep walking just keep
walking just keep working just keep
working yeah correct please wonderful
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thank you thank you
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