to me it just was a transition that happened in my career it gave a lot of people a platform during our times we didnt have a platform to showcase our talent through our efforts on boogie woogie we were able to create a chance ki ek common man aake stage pe perform kare that was a big service you come from a film family your father was a filmmaker you must have seen production film sets and actors firsthandunfortunately when my father passed away i was 11 so i really didnt see that glamourous side of the business he was going through a lot of problems he was gone by the time i could even start to realise things after your father passed away did you assume responsibility of being the man of the house and be the breadwinner did that influence your decision to opt for the security of producing a tv show over the uncertainty of life as an actorits like youre reading my mind i just loved to act but yes that was one part of life it was also for family i started earning money and it would get bread and butter to the table ive been working for a living ever since i was 11 and thats why after so many years when boogie woogie ended i didnt do anything for the next 10 years i realised i havent had a childhood i just decided i dont want to do anything it was like for 10 years i went into hibernation i didnt want to move a muscle thats why i took that big break after boogie woogiein the past youve used a very peculiar adage to talk about your relationship status and the fact that you are unmarried youve said dhoodh ka jala chaas bhi foonk kar peeta hai what went wrongi think you fall in love probably once in your lifetime twice if youre really lucky i am talking about true love and i was in love but certain things didnt work out dont go by the boogie woogie and onscreen demeanor i am a very emotional guy and it hurt a lot it took me a long time to get out of it it was a long distance relationship and it really kind of scarred me my intentions were honourable her intentions were honourable but somewhere down the line it just didnt happen for whatever reason after that relationship i used to feel so confused what if the next relationship doesnt work thats not the way one should think but thats what happened to me i had become like majnuhow did you end up getting cast in the night managerlet me take you a little back once we were done with boogie boogie it had been 10 years and before that it had been around 20 years that i hadnt acted i did small cameos for friends i did a guest appearance in a web series but this is like a