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After ‘Ludo’ & ‘Mismatched’, Rohit Saraf has become the new ‘national crush’.
With his charming smile and chocolate-boy image, Rohit enjoys a massive female fan following on social media.
But it hasn’t always been a bed of roses for the ‘Dear Zindagi’ actor.
During a candid chat with Humans of Bombay, Rohit talked about losing his father at the tender age of 11 and how it had impacted his acting career.
Rohit revealed how his father motivated him to become an actor.
“I have vague memories of going on excursions with Pa when I was a kid–I’d keep posing on the way & Pa kept photographing me. He’d say, ‘Ek din ye actor banega.’ I was creative–I did a lot of plays & practiced contemporary dance. Pa motivated us to do what we liked,” the 25-year-old actor revealed.
“He’d say, ‘Education isn’t everything–I want you to live life to the fullest.’ But at 11, Pa passed away. I was too young to understand what losing a father meant; I just knew that if he were alive, he’d want me to pursue our dream. So, I sent out my photos to casting directors. The very next day, I was called for an audition! At 15 I believed, ‘it’s Pa who’s making this happen.’ So, I dropped out of school; within a week I was shortlisted for the lead role–I moved to Bombay,” Rohit added.
He also revealed that he signed his first movie at the age of 16. But things got ugly when the project got shelved during the post-production. For 2 years he waited for that movie to see the day of light but it didn’t happen.
Then he decided to start from scratch and that is when he bagged ‘Dear Zindagi’.
When he was working with Priyanka Chopra Jonas for ‘The Sky Is Pink’, she motivated Rohit by saying, “You’ve gotten this part because you deserve to be here. So just go for it.”
He concluded, “Still when I see actors chatting with their fathers during screenings, I miss Pa terribly. But I know I’m living his dream–the one where he knew in his bones ki ‘unka beta actor banega.’”
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