Mumbai, Maharashtra: In an exclusive conversation with IANS, actor Daksh reflected on his journey in the entertainment industry and the realities of working in television and OTT. He talk about the responsibility that comes with popular shows, his sudden audition journey for his current role and his focus on staying natural and authentic as an actor. Daksh shared that he doesn’t worry about typecasting, instead prioritising consistent work, learning and growth. He views rejection as a normal part of the industry and maintains gratitude even during demanding schedules. He also expresses openness to reality shows and new-age formats like vertical content. For him, success is defined by personal happiness and satisfaction rather than fame or external validation, highlighting a grounded and steady approach to his career.
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00:00First of all, welcome to INS.
00:01Thank you so much. Thank you.
00:03First of all, you would like to know why
00:06the part of the Iconic Shows
00:09is being a part of the show.
00:10There is a pressure on you.
00:12How many responsibilities were you
00:16especially when the expectations are already set?
00:20I feel,
00:21you can do any show.
00:23Any show.
00:24There is a responsibility on you.
00:26There is a show on you.
00:27There is a show on the national television.
00:30It is not that everyone is watching.
00:32The rest of the other shows are coming.
00:34The audience is also watching.
00:36You are watching on the TV.
00:37You have to give your best shot.
00:39You are also nervous.
00:41You also have responsibilities.
00:43When you are associated with this name,
00:46you feel very good.
00:48You feel grateful.
00:49You feel lucky.
00:50You are part of the show.
00:57You have to live the dream.
00:59You are part of the show.
01:00You have to live the dream.
01:01You also have to live that dream.
01:02That feels good.
01:04You feel grateful.
01:05When you knew about this show,
01:09you were exactly what you were excited.
01:12How did you get excited?
01:14How did you get excited?
01:15How did you get excited?
01:15I was very excited.
01:16When I got to know that QK2 is coming.
01:18In QK2, they called me for the audition.
01:23And I gave Hrithik to the audition.
01:25But eventually it didn't happen.
01:27Then I did this show for Sony Sub Ganeshkartike.
01:30And it was going for a year.
01:31I was doing that show.
01:32Side by side, I got this call for QK2 also.
01:35Because they called me for Nagin.
01:38And Nagin didn't happen.
01:39So they told me that QK2 is the same team.
01:42And they are considering you for Nakul's character.
01:45At night, I got a call.
01:46At night, I got a call.
01:48At night, I got a call.
01:49So I was like, why not?
01:51And at night, I got a confirmation.
01:54That we are shooting.
01:55So I didn't understand what happened.
01:58And next day.
02:01Cut to next day, I was shooting for this.
02:04So it was very good.
02:05And it was also good.
02:07Your performance is very natural and relatable.
02:11So is it instinctively or consciously observe your character?
02:18I feel that you are working.
02:21When you come to a process.
02:24When you come to Bombay.
02:24When you become an actor.
02:26When you learn acting.
02:28And slowly you feel like you are working.
02:30So you know the crux.
02:32What you like to do.
02:33What you like to do.
02:33What you like to do.
02:34What you like to do.
02:34What you like to do.
02:35What you like to do.
03:04What you like to do.
03:07I have one.
03:11I have one.
03:12I have one.
03:14I have two.
03:15I have one.
03:18I have two.
03:26to be very honest
03:27because I never thought that
03:29I would like to do so many characters
03:33but there are also the characters
03:35such as Kubule
03:39there was a little negative shade
03:41he was a small brother
03:43he was a very beloved child
03:44then Ganesh Karate came
03:46and he was a different character
03:48then when he was not killed
03:50he was a little boy with his dad
03:52he was a little boy with his love
03:53and then he showed his love
03:55he showed his bond
03:56he changed a dynamic change
03:57so I feel that
03:59everything in your hands
04:03there is nothing in your hands
04:03what happens, that happens
04:05and you just have to go with the flow
04:07and I also do that
04:08and I also do that
04:10so this is the thing
04:12I have never saved you
04:13but eventually
04:15you get the characters
04:17in the TV
04:18so vast audience
04:19so vast characters
04:21so vast shows
04:21and so vast shows
04:22that if you do
04:27if you give auditions on daily basis
04:29if you give auditions on daily basis
04:29and if you try and remain
04:31then you get things
04:33unconscious
04:34end after being
04:36what you do
04:37in a new place
04:38or what do you choose
04:41through your career
04:50I will also believe that you have to do the work that you have to do.
04:55Because there are few of them who come to Bombay and can show them on TV,
05:00can make their name, and can make money.
05:03So, the work that you choose to do is a very long journey.
05:09It's a very long journey.
05:10And for that journey, you have to do a lot of things like this,
05:14in which you may not have to do your mind, but you have to do it.
05:19So, I don't have to choose what you want to choose or what you want to choose.
05:25The work should be good.
05:26When you are working, you are giving yourself a hundred percent.
05:30If people are good, you feel good at work.
05:33So, basically, that is my thing.
05:35I don't want to do this or that.
05:38I don't want to choose that.
05:40Because when God is giving you, then you will choose what you want.
05:45Your name is absolutely growing.
05:48But you have ever paid rejection or self-taught fees, which I remember today?
05:54I am saying that again.
05:56I mean, I have to say that I have to say that there is no struggle.
05:59I mean, whatever is happening with you is the process.
06:05It is all the process.
06:06And that is where you are.
06:07There is a whole process.
06:08It is all the process.
06:09And there is a whole process.
06:10There is a whole process in our industry.
06:11You have to face rejection.
06:13You have to face rejection.
06:14As long as you accept and reject them,
06:17this is the process.
06:19And if you have to take that process properly,
06:22then you will be on a different level.
06:25And you will be living in a different level.
06:27And you will live in a process.
06:28You will live in a different way.
06:29Without cheating on your process without cheating on your life.
06:35And you will take your life and it will be on a different level.
06:36So, rejection and all the things you should be scared.
06:41You have done OTT and Television, so you have worked on both platforms, so honestly I know that the actor
06:48has more satisfaction.
06:51Where there is work. TV, OTT, ads, films, you can't get satisfaction if you don't get satisfied with your work.
07:01If you are satisfied with your work, every place is satisfaction.
07:04If you are dedicated to your work, and you know that this scene is a small scene,
07:09whether it is a dialogue, but if you have done it well, that's the only satisfaction.
07:14OTT, films, ads, they don't give satisfaction to you.
07:20Auditions also get satisfaction. I do a lot of things.
07:23Auditions also do a lot of things, and then casting directors or creatives,
07:28they tell you that this is the perfect audition we were looking for,
07:33whether it is or not.
07:34But if the audition is also good,
07:36then it is also very good.
07:38It is also satisfying.
07:43So you do a lot of things.
07:50Yes, do a lot.
07:54You are just making sure of me,
07:55you are making a gift for your work,
07:55because of the work and you are making a blessing.
07:59You are making a a job,
08:01what do you do in Bombay
08:03besides that
08:05you can't survive without work
08:06the media also
08:09work at 12 o'clock
08:11they are never complaining about their work
08:13and you don't have to forcefully
08:15in Bombay
08:16as many people in this industry
08:18I feel that they are just from their own
08:20and they are following their passion
08:23so this industry is the most beautiful thing
08:25that nobody is doing that
08:27work for money
08:28they are doing it for their passion
08:30and they are doing it for their heart
08:31whether it is anyone
08:34so there is no complaint
08:36you need to find money
08:37if you don't have to find money
08:39and if you don't have to find money
08:41then you can't find money
08:43so money, late payments, long working hours
08:47little things
08:48if you are thinking about it
08:51but if you are thinking about it
08:53I don't complain about anything
08:55I sleep in the car
08:57I'm going to do two shows
08:59so I was sleeping in the car
09:00so I felt lucky
09:01so I felt lucky
09:03I don't have any complaint
09:05this is what I feel
09:06reality shows
09:07now that we are in this industry
09:19we don't have to think about anything
09:21I look forward to work with any of the reality shows
09:25but it's good shows
09:26but it's good shows
09:27it's good to work
09:29and I will be grateful
09:30that if I get a show like this
09:31I will be grateful
09:31that if I get a show like this
09:32I will be grateful
09:33or a big boss
09:35so I am open for it
09:37so I never thought
09:38that I don't want to do that
09:39I don't want to do that
09:40you are a promising talent
09:42with a tag
09:44but how do you define your career
09:46how do you define your career
09:47stardom, respect, longevity
09:49or priority
09:49what is your priority?
09:52happiness
09:54how happy
09:55you are so happy
09:56I feel like
09:57I feel like
09:59I look forward
10:00that
10:01I am happy
10:02I am happy
10:03people's acceptance
10:05and validation
10:06it's not a difference
10:08with anyone
10:08with any of the things
10:09my family is happy
10:11I am happy
10:11that is the most important thing for me
10:14and that is the most important thing for me
10:15and that is the most important thing for me
10:16it doesn't matter
10:17today
10:18you have become a part of the social media
10:18presently actors
10:19in the presently actors
10:22so what do you think
10:23that the visibility matter
10:25is more than the talent
10:26so there will be visibility
10:28there will be visibility
10:29and if there will be talent
10:30and visibility
10:31will increase
10:32then there will be no benefit
10:33and talented people
10:36who are visible
10:38they are
10:39in the long run only
10:40you will come to the trend
10:42after that
10:43there will be no work
10:44so
10:44that I feel more dangerous
10:47because you have seen a peak
10:50and you are going downwards
10:52so downwards
10:52is very difficult
10:54in life
10:55so this is what I feel
11:25if there will be talent
11:30that you have seen a lot of followers
11:35that will be more than the followers
11:37they will come to the followers
11:39and the followers
11:56correct
12:04I don't think that I can replace it.
12:08If you have a chance to replace it,
12:08if it's your chance to replace it,
12:10if it's not, then you won't do anything.
12:12This is what I feel.
12:13If you think about someone like me,
12:16I'm going to attack it,
12:18then I'll go to that.
12:20I don't want to stay in it.
12:23You don't have to do anything.
12:24You don't have to do anything.
12:27You don't have to do anything.
12:29You don't have to do anything.
12:33I have also done verticals.
12:37I have also done verticals.
12:38I have also done a vertical.
12:39The thing for me is that
12:41I got to know how much pressure you have to play a show.
12:44That is the most positive thing about verticals.
12:48which we shoot.
12:50Because if you don't do that,
12:52there are lines that are so big, big paragraphs
12:54that you have to say.
12:56And you know the audition and set
12:59is a totally different place.
13:01You get a lot of time to make an audition.
13:03That's why you don't have so much pressure.
13:05100 people are not watching.
13:06But if you are on the set,
13:08there's a lot of pressure on you.
13:10Many people have time constraints.
13:13So you have to deliver.
13:14So the thing that I understood
13:16was that it was a paid workshop.
13:19For any actor.
13:21The big shows that I haven't done.
13:23But that's for me.
13:26And the other thing that I think
13:28is that the people who don't get to work on TV.
13:31For whatever reasons.
13:33They are working continuously.
13:34And it's very very rich in our industry.
13:38Even after the verticals.
13:39So this is a good thing.
13:42If you want to describe your journey
13:44from Kabula to Pinto to Nakul Virani,
13:47what is it?
13:48Grateful.
13:49Whatever you do.
13:50Whatever you do.
13:51Whatever you do.
13:52Whatever you do.
13:52Everything you do.
13:53I mean, I am working on my own.
13:56But the work is coming.
13:58And you are working on your own.
14:00And you are working on your own.
14:01And you are working on your own.
14:01And I guess it will continue.
14:03I hope it will continue.
14:05Because many people, if you see,
14:09don't work out things.
14:10Which is very bad.
14:13Not basically bad.
14:14But that is a bad thing again.
14:17But grateful.
14:20If you have got the things
14:21that you have got.
14:22That you will give 100%
14:25if you are grateful.
14:26If you are not grateful.
14:27If you are not grateful,
14:28you will not give 100%
14:28and the work you will not keep grounded.
14:31So that is my thing.
14:33Okay.
14:34Last thing,
14:34In the industry,
14:36what are the most important things
14:38in your industry?
14:39Three things?
14:42Three things?
14:45We actually have this.
14:46Consistency.
14:48Discipline.
14:50And hard work.
14:51These are the three things that
14:52rest of your own house.
14:55Consistent needs to be very important for you.
14:56In life,
14:57take your own things.
14:58Take your fitness.
14:58Take your goals.
15:01Take your own things.
15:02Take your own things.
15:02Take your own things to yourself.
15:03What are the things you should do.
15:04потер them?
15:05Take that more.
15:05In those things,
15:08bring your own things to them.
15:09You should preserve yourself
15:09do not need time to do your work, then the rest of the party and the rest of the party
15:17are all the things that are going to happen. Don't focus on them, because eventually
15:22they will not go to your home, they will not make a life. But yes, they will also be
15:27necessary. Personal life is also important. So they will keep you happy, so they will
15:31also be balanced in life. But the hard work is all of them.
15:44You have to be the main character. You have to carry those vibes. And where you
15:52should be a group, I think. If you are thinking that you are a partner of the group,
15:58that will never happen. And if you are saying that I am a group, you are a group.
16:03And if there are all the things, then everything will look good. If you are not
16:08able to enjoy life in life, then there will not be any benefit.
16:11Sir, I have one more question. How did you share your experience with me?
16:16How did you share a scene with me? Or did you share any anecdotes?
16:21Can you tell me?
16:22Yes, I have one more scene. I have also told you in the other interviews. I feel good
16:26to work with you. I feel like you are working on such a big stage. You are working on such
16:31a
16:31large stage. You are working on such a large stage. You are working on such a large stage.
16:51You are working on such a large stage. You are working on such a large stage. And you have to
17:07know that
17:11you are working on such a big stage. You are working on such a large stage. You are working on
17:16such a big stage.
17:16I am working on such a big stage. You are working on such a big stage. You are working on
17:22such a big stage.
17:46You are working on such a big stage.
17:51So, when I came to the set, I got to know that my character is a SSA character. So, for
17:553-4 days,
17:56I have been shooting without them. In fact, in a month, I was shooting without a family member.
18:02But eventually, when I got to know that my character is a scene with me, I was more nervous.
18:08Because, where I was in the first scene. And when I was in front of them,
18:17there was a feeling that I couldn't tell you what I was feeling about.
18:21I was walking on the set. I was walking on the front of everyone.
18:26I was walking on the front of everyone and they were getting away.
18:27And I had this conversation with me and my mom.
18:31So, it feels great. That feeling I couldn't tell anyone.
18:34Because I didn't even know that this could happen with me.
18:36And it happened. And it happened.
18:39And there were very grounded people and very good people,
18:42which were very good people in you.
18:44That feeling very good.
18:46How did you see my scene with me?
18:48No, no.
18:50No, no.
18:51I didn't even know that scene with me.
18:53I was walking on the scene.
18:54So, I didn't even know that I didn't see anything.
18:57But, you feel that
19:01you're a different place.
19:03I don't think about these things
19:06that they have talked to me or not
19:09I put a photo on Instagram on the first time
19:13and on my Instagram it was never like that
19:16one point something millions of photos
19:18and I never thought that a photo would be like that
19:23but I feel very good
19:25that you love so many people
19:27only with a name
19:29what do you think about your fans and future goals?
19:36future goals is nothing
19:37I have to do this or that
19:39but I live in the moment
19:41I have to do goals
19:42but I don't think about it
19:45that I have to do this or that
19:47if you are going to do it
19:48then you will do it
19:50and you will do it
19:53and if it is good then
19:55it will be good
19:56plus
19:57give you love
19:59and I feel very good
20:01thank you so much
20:02so
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