“I was rejected in so many auditions.” Kartik Aaryan opened up about facing an identity crisis during his early days in this episode of “No Filter Neha”.
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00:00I used to feel really bad when I was rejected in so many auditions.
00:05I didn't have a car to go to the awards.
00:07A lot of people didn't know that I existed.
00:10Or they just knew monologue guy.
00:12No one can keep a girl happy.
00:14A happy woman is a...
00:30Tell me that one moment in your life where you thought
00:59that you'll never settle for anything less.
01:01You're like, this is it.
01:02And I am not going to settle, no matter what.
01:05I think that was before Sonu D2 also.
01:10What was happening?
01:11And during Pyaar Ka Panchnama 1, even before that, basically that was one when I was entering
01:17the industry.
01:19I had this thing that I would not settle for something less or I would not settle for something
01:24which is...
01:26Maybe at that time, I was concentrating that if I want to do a film, I have to do a lead
01:30role.
01:31I have to somehow crack that.
01:34But before Sonu D2, there was this thing where there was a lull period where a lot of people
01:40didn't know who I was.
01:42A lot of people didn't know that I existed.
01:45Or they just knew monologue guy, Pyaar Ka Panchnama, Panchnama 2.
01:50And honestly speaking, I got out of one of those films.
01:55Like I said, even if you're a complete outsider, people don't have that much knowledge about
02:02you.
02:03Maybe they don't even want to know about you.
02:06A lot of things happen.
02:07But it's natural.
02:08It's nothing negative, nothing positive.
02:10It's just how it is, right?
02:11Yeah, of course.
02:12It is what it is.
02:13It is what it is.
02:14I used to cry a lot.
02:15I used to feel really bad when I was rejected in so many auditions, so many places where
02:24I used to be called unfit, a lot of places where they never used to show my audition
02:29tapes also.
02:30It was just a different experience at that time.
02:33I used to feel...
02:34And I used to travel from Belapur, Kharghar to Andheri or Santa Cruz, wherever the auditions
02:42were.
02:43It was weird.
02:44And there was a sharing...
02:45I can't call it a taxi, but it was a sharing taxi that you used to get on the highway.
02:5110-12 people used to sit in it.
02:52So I used to sit in it or I used to take the local train.
02:55So I used to feel so...
02:57Like sometimes I used to feel, what am I doing?
03:00You know, I travel and go there.
03:03But I didn't know if they would let me come in for the audition or not.
03:08But I used to reach in the lines.
03:10There was a maximum of 99% time rejection.
03:14So it was just a phase where it went on like this for two years.
03:20So all these things look very difficult when you don't enter the industry and you don't
03:26know anyone.
03:27So you don't even have the basic knowledge of those things.
03:30Gradually you get to know, you get to...
03:33You teach yourself.
03:34In between, I did some ads in which I took a placard and just one of the guys...
03:39In that, just my...
03:41We love channel.
03:43So my name is on love.
03:44I'm standing with a placard.
03:46So then it felt a little bad.
03:48Then it felt like, man, it won't happen.
03:50What should I do?
03:51And I didn't want to be an engineer.
03:53But then things happened with Pyar Ka Panchnama, how it happened.
03:57And so I learned myself.
03:59But it's a tough...
04:01It takes a toll.
04:05I think before Sonu, I was just sure that I wouldn't do a film that would short me.
04:15And I was at a very difficult stage at that time because I had to go to a standard of
04:22living in life.
04:23I mean, I used to have problems with whatever issues there were.
04:29Like what?
04:30Like what?
04:31There was no car to go to the awards.
04:34Yeah, it was hard.
04:35Yeah, it used to feel like, I'm going by rickshaw.
04:39So that was the case in the first 3-4 films.
04:43I bought a third hand car.
04:45Its driving...
04:47What do you call it?
04:49The door, it didn't open.
04:53But I said, okay, now this is the car.
04:56He used to drive the car.
04:58Now the funniest thing was that if you find a valet there,
05:02then the valet will...
05:06I'll jump on the passenger seat and tell him to come this way.
05:12And then he used to go and park the car.
05:15So there were such small things.
05:17But I think that's the experience of life.