he likes to call himself wonderfully single and his social media handles are flooded with his creative work bollywood heartthrob arunoday singh was recently in kolkata to attend a literary festival in a session the aisha yeh saali zindagi and jism 2 actor spoke about how theatre sets the stage for an actor how it is to play the bad guy balancing the creative aspects of his life the ebb and flow in ones acting career and expresses concern over the worldwide state of democracy and climate change excerptsafter training in theatre doing movies is a breezetheatre will always be special stage is a place where one could be anything i could be shy gregarious and go back to being shy again because i am not an extrovert theatre is for actors movies are for many other people after you have trained in theatre memorised lengthy dialogues doing movies is just a breeze theatre is great for the adrenaline you are there nervous about to throw up and you go on stage knowing therell be no cuts it is more immediate than a film i like the best of both theatre and films and am glad i get to do both there is no formula for acting one should do everything from gigs to theatres and training for films no point wasting timeyou must hang on to your dream stick around and make sure it sustains you anything else is extrathere is no magic to it you have to be stubborn and stick around there is no journey to it beyond just hanging on and believing that it has nothing to do with success you just love it enough so that it becomes something that will sustain you the rest of it is just noise which doesnt matter because that changes with ebbs and flows what matters is you are managing to do what you dreamt of doing and you are paying the bills thats enough anything more is extraif you love acting youll accept what comes your wayi have done so many villain roles not because i like to do it but sometimes you do them because thats all you are getting i am big bald and bearded and everyone just wants to beat me up it is a test because it helps you know if you are in it because you like acting or if you just want to be famous i have stopped doing them now i need something more fun than thateach role demands a different kind of process and homeworkit is bollywood and not everything needs to be nuanced and researched some characters require us to read up about them some just require us to hit the gym regularly it is important to read the script again and again till you are familiar with it enough to perform it without making it look like a scene or that you are acting i am fortunate to have worked in films spread across various