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“Storytelling was always a passion for me.”
“Once a group of people have decided something, the onus is on you to prove otherwise.”
“To be honest, I've never invested in the stock market. My grandmother used to warn us against the stock exchange. My grandfather had lost a lot money in the share market. We are a working class family.”
“As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.”
“In fact, I feel that cinema has no language.”
“I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.”
“Humour plays a vital part in any 'Bhavai' performance and is seen in plays.”
“When someone is constantly praising you, beyond a point, you don't know what to say beyond a 'thank you.'”
“Theatre is where I come from and I don't want to leave it for sure.”
“I come from a teaching family so, we never had anything to do with the financial world.”
“It won't be wrong if I say that I've grown up in the theatre and it has grown in me.”
“Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.”
“I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama.”
“Your core competency and acting skills are important.”
“What changed after 'Scam' on a bigger level was the way the audience and the makers started looking at me as an actor.”
“It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes into play. My job is to create that character and present him to the audience. If even one per cent of judgment creeps in, then the whole performance will be affected.”
“No one in my family is an entrepreneur.”
“In 1992, I was in school. I did hear about Harshad Mehta and one of my cousins lost some money in the stock market, but I knew little about it.”
“I don't think any two individuals, especially artistes, can be or should be compared. We are different human beings. The way we think, feel, emote is bound to be different.”
“There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.”