LIVING THE FAB LIFE
The MAN|January 01,2023
NAVIGATING HIS WAY THROUGH A TURBULENT AND DECISIVE DECADE IN BOLLYWOOD, ROHIT SARAF THE MISMATCHED STAR IS DESTINED TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF HIMSELF IN 2023
Sonali Velinker Kamat
LIVING THE FAB LIFE

THE LAST TIME we sat down for a heart-to-heart with Rohit Saraf was before Mismatched premiered on Netflix in November 2020. In the hour or two we spent gabbing on that occasion, his grit and candour made quite an impression. Not to mention his compelling story. Aged 15, Rohit came to Mumbai with a smattering of assignments in hand, and a well-shot portfolio. He remembers his mother crying the night before he left home — the only time she ever had second thoughts about sending her youngest child off to maximum city to chase a dream.

It is more than a tad ironic that the 26-year-old star, currently touted as the ‘national crush of India’, wasn’t really chasing his own dream. The strongest motivation for pursuing an acting career was that Rohit’s father — who passed away when Rohit was all of 11 — had always wanted him to be an actor. “I wanted to be a dancer. Photography and fine arts were areas of interest too,” Rohit recalls. When a school friend did a photoshoot in Grade 10, Rohit’s mother encouraged him to follow suit. “So, I did the shoot, and sent those photographs to a couple of casting directors whom I accessed through the internet. I got a great response! I started giving auditions almost immediately,” says Rohit.

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