My acting journey commenced after I secured an admission in IIT Kharagpur. As the academic session ushered, all my peers became meticulous towards studies on the contrary, I was drawn to various co-curricular activities like debate competitions, declamations etc. and to my surprise I was winning them. Having accomplished my primary and secondary education from a Hindi medium school, language was one of the major hurdles that I knew that I had to overcome and therefore winning these competitions overtime gave immense boost to my confidence. I even auditioned for the dramatic society of the college and made it through. It was that which gave an impetus to my affinity for acting.

During my days in dramatic society,  I met Bisso (Biswapati Sarkar)  who used to write plays and we performed them. Before this we used to perform adapted plays written by Rabindranath Tagore, Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani. Later, Bisso moved to Mumbai and interned with people who made documentaries, short films and client videos. In 2012 the first video – Rowdies, that Bisso wrote during his days in college, went viral over the internet. On the other hand I was still in the final year of my  college, confused with my career options. 

As I was in a dilemma I was unable to secure a job post placements in the college. On Bisso’s suggestion I decided to make a move to Mumbai to try my luck at acting. The first professional video that I was a part of was “har ek friend zaruri nahi hota”. We started shooting for the video on my very first day in Mumbai and completed the shoot within 2 days. Though, we did not receive a promising response for the video during screening, yet we released the video after a week. It didn’t get a great response from the viewers, as the first video was a next level viral. After acting in a bunch of other videos and not receiving a good response I started looking for a job. 

As I always believed in reality checks and somehow during those 3 months in Mumbai I didn’t meet the expectations which I had from myself. I realized that acting in college in front of a limited audience is very different from acting professionally. I was disappointed. I left Mumbai and landed a job in a construction firm and worked for almost a year. Whilst working at the construction firm, I eventually realised that this was not something that I wanted to pursue lifelong. 

Now I knew that acting is my thing and I got rid of the confusion about my career. With this clarity of thought  I knew that I had to make a brisk decision so I quit my job. I also applied for the National School of Drama but couldn’t get through at my attempt. I finally assembled all the courage and confessed to my family about my ambition for acting. It took some time to sought approval from my father, but eventually he agreed and even insisted on helping me with my expenses and funding whilst I worked as an actor but I denied. His only question was “ how much time do you need”? On the basis of my previous experience in Mumbai I knew that time is something I can’t decide because I knew it will take long. So I left for Mumbai and to support my expenses I took tution classes of 10^th and 9^th  class students.

Shortly after I retrieved back to Mumbai for my second innings, I started acting in various videos with the most sedulous efforts. My first viral video was “Ek thi behen” in the year 2013. In 2014, “Barely speaking with Arnab” released in which I played the role of Arjun Kejriwal and to a stroke of luck, my character was very well received by the viewers. In 2015, a web series ”Pitchers” was supposed to be filmed but TVF had to release “Permanent Roommates”. TVF delivered India’s first YouTube web series “Permanent Roommates” which was very well received by the viewers all across and it was a confidence booster for all of us. 

Then came Pitchers, it was an inspirational show. With a small team, we used to work very hard. We  improvised and created the episodes according to the response received from the previous episodes. Eventually the segment got competitive and then “Bachelors” happened, it was a series with 25 min long episodes which was the first of its kind because before that kind of parodies  were 5-10 mins short. The first season was filmed with Bhuvan Bam. I was asked to work in the second season. 

It was a totally nascent experience for me since the entire team of production was changed. Interns were now makers and those experiences were very different from when we had filmed earlier. As earlier we used to work in stress. Now these guys had a total different perspective and working model. It was a learning for me too, I actually realized that this is how acting has to be done. You should enjoy the process and have fun during the process. This experience was life changing for me. I was recognized for my work in pitchers but I knew it was still a long way to go. I wanted to work in different show, the kind of shows I wanted to do. We always wanted to give something different to the industry as well as our viewers. We explore various genres with shows like Kota Factory, Hostel Days and Cheesecake which was a pet story.

“Gone kesh” was the first film I was casted for and Kota factory was on rage when SMZS team had seen me on those shows so eventually I got casted in “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan”. After a few reading sessions with Hitesh Sir and a meeting with Anand sir, I became even more confident and excited to work on the project. Everything about this project was special – story, cast,  behind the camera production crew. We became very good friends and had a lot of fun while filming. It was a very ecstatic and optimistic environment. 

The responses that were received after the film was released were overwhelming. The length of texts I received from people filled my heart with joy and brought a smile to my face. My latest project is Chaman Bahaar which will be streaming in Netflix and I hope people will love it. I am nothing but grateful and in awe of all the prospects and opportunities that have come on the way of this journey.