Sumeet to star opposite Kalki in his Bollywood debut

Playing the lead role in the popular web-series Permanent Roomates by TVF, he found himself a loyal fan base. Starting of with theatre, he’sbeen growing steadily and now Sumeet Vyas will be seen in the lead opposite Kalki Koechlin in an upcoming Bollywood film, Ribbon. He was super-impressed by the body of work that the director of the film, Rakhee Sandilya, has behind her and so decided to take up the project. The film portrays a five year journey of a married couple that is drowning in the pressures of urban life, he explains. In an candid conversation with TGS, he tells us about what he believes was the turning point of his career, why he loves his job and what inspired him to take up acting.

Absorbed in writing a script along with a friend of his for an upcoming film, shooting for Permanent Roomates and attending workshops for Ribbon is keeping him extremely occupied, and he is loving every moment of it. “The biggest asset of an actor is the kind of life that he has the opportunity to live. There is so much to experience and feel that more often than not you can discover a whole new side of yourself, a side you did not know existed,” he says. This is also what must be used as inspiration to keep going, he adds.

Sumeet caught the acting bug when he saw his father act in a musical. There was something very beautiful about how everything and everyone looked on stage that immediately appealed to him, he recalls. He was 17 years old back then, and decided that this is what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
 Permanent Roomates was definitely something that turned his life around and he could not be more grateful for the project. “Believing in yourself and accepting the fact that your journey as an actor will have a lot of good and bad phases is important to succeed. I have gone from making short films to make ends meet to now doing a film, and hardwork paired with patience and faith is all that has got me here,” he tells us. An actor for almost 15 years now, Sumeet believes his journeyhas been an incredible one, full of experiences that have helped him grow into the actor and person that he is today.

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Originally published on The Golden Sparrow