a number of highprofile christmas lunches and parties are hosted in bollywood every year and for many actors marking their presence at such parties is a must but gautam rode prefers a quiet lunch with his close friends on christmas rather than being at any highprofile gathering the actor told us that for the past few years he has been spending his christmas at a friends place in mumbai where most of his old and close friends assemble for lunch for us christmas is the day to be spent at my friend shajus place he is the one who still gives us presents on christmas and i always take out time to be at his place on december 25 this year too i plan to do the same said gautam who was recently in his hometown delhi he was here for a day and could not extend his visit till christmas christmas is the festival to be spent with family and even when i moved to mumbai i tried to spend christmas with my family but now that is not always possible since i am mostly in mumbai if i am in delhi we go out for a family dinner the city looks even more beautiful with every place so welldecorated said the actor who recently made his debut in films with aksar 2gautam rode bccl ranjit kumar gautam rode bccl ranjit kumargautam is known to be a fitness freak and is very strict with his diet and workout the actor says that even while he is shooting for 1214 hours each day he never misses his workout in fact he created a mini gym on sets of shows like suryaputra karn to stay regular with his workout but he says christmas is one festival when he doesnt mind binging on chocolates and cakes i work out for a few hours extra but i cant give cakes and chocolates a miss on christmas when i was a kid i loved having muffins and cupcakes and i still like them with coffee as a kid i would have 67 muffins with milk for breakfast he saidbccl ranjit kumar bccl ranjit kumarthe actor says that some of his best memories of christmas are from his school days he did his schooling from army public school dhaula kuan christmas celebrations would be the mostawaited in school because that was the onset of winter vacations we used to decorate the christmas tree keep some gifts there and expect a lot many gifts in return my teachers would gift me stationary like pencil boxes and that used to be very special i was never into drama and theatre in school so i never participated in christmas skits that were often a part of christmas celebrations in school my parents asked me what gifts i wanted and i would get really excited they gifted me video games and other people would gift me stamps and coins from different parts of the world as i loved collecting