I felt like I was in safe hands and confident about the final outcome. What also helped was the backing of maverick producers like Ronnie Screwvala and Amita Madhvani. Well, the jodi worked! With this project, I knew what the content was and what we were getting into. It was for the first time that I was collaborating with an ace filmmaker like Ram Madhvani sir. When the film was being made did you anticipate that it would be received so well by the audience? I’m certain Dhamaka will give me an opportunity to work with filmmakers that I always aspired to team up with and a chance to showcase my talent. I can see that the fraternity has taken notice of me as an actor. My dream is to be the number one actor in this industry. Do you think it will help you further cement your position in the industry? With this film you got to showcase your range as an actor. Thankfully, with films of certain genres like Dhamaka, people take notice of these. With romance or comedy films, sometimes the audience misses taking notice of little nuances in a performance. All this while, I was seen as a commercial star, now they are happy to see me as a commercial-actor star. They saw a different shade of me and were pleasantly surprised as it surpassed their imagination. The one comment on social media that caught my attention is - ‘Where was this Kartik Aaryan, the actor?’ I am also excited with the way members of the film fraternity reacted to my performance after I met them at the film’s screening. I am glad that everyone is so surprised and happy seeing my performance in Dhamaka. What is the feedback you’ve got from your fans and members of the film fraternity that has touched you the most?įor the longest time, I was looking to do something different from what I had done before.

Your latest film Dhamaka is being touted as your career’s best performance so far. He calls himself a ‘fan-made actor’ and says that the appreciation from viewers for Dhamaka has boosted his confidence to take up more challenging roles in the future. On his birthday today, Kartik talks about becoming wiser as an actor with every passing day. His portrayal of Arjun Pathak in the recently released Dhamaka shows him in a different light as an actor and brings out a shade of his talent that we’ve never seen before. From being an actor known for acing the rom-com genre, Kartik Aaryan has come a long way.

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