Mumbai, May 29
Actor Rohit Roy recalled a life-changing moment before auditioning for Mahesh Bahatt's acclaimed show "Swabhimaan".
During a heart-to-heart with Yash Birla for a session titled "The Soul Science", Rohit shared that he lost his father when he was just 14 or 15 years old, right after which he visited Bombay for his first audition—which was for "Swabhimaan".
He said, "I got rejected for that show after I tested. But later, Mahesh Bhatt saw an NG (no good) take and asked, ‘Who is this boy? Call him back.’ They gave me a shot, and believe it or not, it was a shot of me saying something to my father's dead body. So that emotion had stayed with me—because I was really young and it hadn’t left me even after 3–4 years—came out in that scene, unknowingly, because I wasn't a trained actor. And when I saw that, everything kind of came out. So it's really how you channel your emotions in front of the camera. You don't always have to switch off—there are certain times when it doesn't matter to me."