‘I’d like to romance Alia Bhatt someday’

Playing a simple guy in the web-series Shaadi Boys, Aakash Ahuja, who hails from Delhi, had quite a tough time getting into the skin of the character. Although he is a shy person otherwise, once before the camera a whole new side of him can be seen, he tells us.

Acting in plays since his school days, it was something that he had hoped he could make a career out of some day. After graduation he started modelling and shifted to Mumbai like so many others to chase his dreams and slowly but steadily he is getting to where he wishes to see himself: at the top.

For him, the best part about being an actor is that he gets to see different perspectives and kinds of people. When he was offered the role of Neil for the web-series Shaadi Boys, he had to do a lot of research to understand the character. Since the character he plays is that of a young writer from Kanpur, he spent a lot of time with people who came from the city to try and get a hang of their accent and how they pronounced words.
 “Being an actor gives me the chance to be another version of myself, since it allows me to let loose. Acting needs one to be honest and true to yourself more than anything else and this is what keeps me motivated to spend as much time as I can rehearsing a character to ensure that it is relatable. If you don’t believe it to be true you can never convince your viewers that it is,” he tells us.

In Shaadi Boys he plays the role of a writer from Kanpur who moves to Mumbai to make it big in Bollywood. He gets pulled into writing scripts for wedding functions by Nitin and Mukesh, the other two leads of the series under the pretext that Shah Rukh Khan will be at the wedding and that it is only here where he will get the superstar to read his script. Since writing a film for King Khan is his only dream, he agrees and this is where it all
 takes a fun twist.

A movie buff himself Aakash would love to play a psycho killer, just like Anthony Hopkins’ character from Silence of the Lambs and also do some action films. Ask him about his future plans and he says, “I’d like to romance Alia Bhatt someday. I think she is an exceptional actor and has played every role with a lot of suave. I would also love the opportunity to work with Imtiaz Ali, Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra and Rajkumar Hirani,” he says.

salonee.mistry@goldensparrow.com

Originally published on The Golden Sparrow