having entered the entertainment industry in the year 2007 apurva agnihotri was seen first in the television show jassi jaissi koi nahin in 2003 last seen in the show bepannaah in 2018 the actor is now back on tv this time as dr advait khanna in the show anupamaa everybody wants to get prominent and lead roles in shows and it is only with the help of my mothers blessings that i have managed to sustain for so long in the television industry doing good work says he adding however my first instinct whenever a show is offered to me is to say no i dont know why but i prefer my alone time without any limelight without any social media and why one doesnt see me acting much is also because i have other areas of interest i am on the verge of finishing a script my father was a script writer so somewhere that writing thing is there in my blood i am inching towards my dream of writing a script and then directing it too apart from all this i am also heavily into motor biking i love to travel the world on my bike i want to go to leh and ladhak soon acting karni padti hai for bread and butter but i have other interests too like thesetelling us more about the process of script writing apurva adds i am enjoying the whole concept of creating characters in my scripts and then they start talking to you the whole process is really amazing i know it really sounds psychotic at the moment but now when i am doing that it is actually happening to me i speak to my characters and yes i wont be acting in my project nor will my wife shilpa saklani you have to be massively talented to be acting directing and writing in a project apurva being so choosy for projects on the small screen we wonder what made him say yes to anupamaa with the producer of the show anupamaa rajan shahi it is like home ground so when he narrated the character to me over the phone i immediately said yes as i have known him for several years i play a doctor in the show this character will bring lots of changes to the life of the shah parivaar and anupama he sharesso does he not miss films sabke liye bollywood is an ultimate goal but if you see tv as a medium has given me much more than bollywood also when i entered bollywood in the 90s people didnt want to see a new face there were shah rukh khan ajay devgn and four five more names which the public wanted to see so for a newcomer to break in was very very difficult pardes is a really special film for me the way subhash ghai presented me no one did and at the end of the day presentation really matters but it is unfair to