akarsh khurana made his bollywood debut as a director with irrfan khan starrer karwaan and ever since then there is no looking back for him the critically acclaimed writer and director of various shows also perform in theatres in an exclusive interaction with etimes akarsh spoke at length about his theatre work a forte he enjoys the most and what is coming up next for himread alsofilmmakers akarsh khurana sunny khanna vikas sharma acquire hindi remake rights of sankashta kara ganapathithe hindi remake rights of the south hit movie sankashta kara ganapathi have been recently bought by director and filmmaker akarsh khurana along with producers sunny khanna and vikas sharma akarsh who recently finished shooting for his upcoming directorial rashmi rocket that stars taapseethe filmmaker revealed that he is fond of writing and directing he said unfortunately i dont manage enough time to do writing as much i like to dospilling the beans about the work he did at home during covid induced lockdown he said all writers got free time to write during the lockdown we all were stuck in a home i did some writing then but i also did postproduction of the show that i had directed i was caught up with thatspeaking about his acting career he explained i usually say yes to an acting role if i know the people who are involved in it and they are friends of mine a lot of acting decisions that i have made is because of personal equations theatre holds a special place in his heart he revealed i started theatre as a hobby we were a bunch of friends that came together when i opened my theatre company for the first 56 years we realised we were doing a decent amount of theatre but we were also losing a lot of money that was one big reality check we had to figure out a sensible way to do theatre we had to be sensible about how to spend money on it and keep the finances in mind because after a point it would have been impossible to run the company if we continuously make lossesakarsh further said the first 7 years of the theatre company were very difficult financially we had to change the way we did things the kind of plays we did and the number of plays we did we had to be smarter about everythingshedding some light on his upcoming projects he said i am right now completing the 2nd season of the netflix show called mismatched i am quite busy with that i am busy with theatre work as well i am opening a play in march i am also working on a teleplay which we will be shooting next month