HEIR & NOW

ABHISHEK BACHCHAN HAS CARVED HIS OWN LEGACY WHICH GOES BEYOND HIS FAMOUS SURNAME. SUMAN SHARMA TALKS TO THE STAR WHO HAS COMPLETED 25 YEARS IN SHOWBIZ

- SUMAN SHARMA

IN AN INDUSTRY WHERE THE SPOTLIGHT OFTEN SHINES BRIGHTER ON THOSE WITH A FAMOUS SURNAME, IT’S EASY TO ASSUME HIS JOURNEY WOULD BE SMOOTH. BUT HIS 25-YEARS JOURNEY IN THE INDUSTRY REMINDS US THAT, LEGACY DOESN'T GUARANTEE ANYTHING, IT ONLY SETS THE STAGE. ABHISHEK BACHCHAN STEPPED INTO THE WORLD OF HINDI CINEMA WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS. BUT HIS PATH HAS ANYTHING BUT EASY. MARKED BY PERSEVERANCE, REINVENTION AND QUIET RESILIENCE, ABHISHEK FACED HIS SHARE OF REJECTIONS AND SETBACKS. YET, HE STAYED THE COURSE, CARVING OUT A SPACE THAT IS UNIQUELY HIS OWN. TODAY, AS HE GARNERS MUCH-DESERVED APPRECIATION FOR HIS LATEST RELEASE KAALIDHAR LAAPATA, AUDIENCES AND CRITICS ALIKE ARE RECOGNISING NOT JUST THE ACTOR, BUT THE JOURNEY AS WELL. FROM HIS COMIC TIMING IN HOUSEFULL 5 TO HIS LAYERED PERFORMANCES IN MOVIES LIKE GURU AND YUVA, ABHISHEK BACHCHAN CONTINUES TO EVOLVE, SURPRISING US, MOVING US AND REMINDING US THAT ENDURANCE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGE IS ITS OWN KIND OF STARDOM. EXCERPTS FROM A FREE-FLOWING INTERVIEW:

Recently, you had written in your Instagram post, “Main ek baar laapata hona chahta hoon. Bheed mein mein khud ko panaa chahta hoon. Bheed mein mein khud ko panaa chahta hoon.” So did you undergo a phase in life when you felt that ,“I am lost in the crowd and now I want to find myself”?

Not at all. I am not that kind of person. I enjoy spending time with my family. I also like spending time with my friends. Because I am a people’s person. So I never thought like this. But now new ways of promoting films are coming up. This line is connected to the character of Kaalidhar in my film, Kaalidhar Laapata. Here, his family isolates him and he goes on a journey of finding himself.

But as an actor did you ever feel, “I need to take a break and I need to connect with myself”?