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“At the age of 24, I feel I have lived more than a lifetime of learning...it’s been an experience I will cherish all my life,” says Gurmeet who plays the lead in NDTVimagine’s Ramayan. “Shooting the return of Ram, Lakshman and Sita to Ayodhya, I realised how long I had been away from home and family! It made me all the more reverent to the greatness of Ram,” he adds. The actor has been shooting for over the past year in Baroda, where producers Sagar Arts have their studio. The contract just got extended after the channel heads decided to air the Luv-Kush episode of the epic.
“There are offers aplenty everytime I am in Mumbai, but I will take my time to choose my next role. And I will make sure that just as people see only Ram in me as I play the part, they wouldn’t see him in what I do next. I am confident, I won’t be typecast,” he says.
The shooting schedules for the Ram-Ravan war episodes were so hectic, sometimes the unit would go without sleep for over 24 hours.
“But now I manage to get some time for recreation, which is to watch TV or movies... Aamir Khan was awesome in Ghajini and I think any actor would give anything for a role like that and to be credited with a performance like that,” says Gurmeet, who prays for good roles whether in movies or on TV.
“Do you know, by default, we were part of Slumdog Millionaire too! Friends called me from abroad and told me that the movie showed a poster of our serial and it was not a passing shot that you would miss if you blinked. I was so excited when I came to know about it that I checked out the movie as soon as I heard it,” gushes Gurmeet, a Punjab native, educated in various parts of India because of his father’s transferable job. He got a successful start in a south Indian TV series.
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