THE TIME HAS COME TO MAKE THE JOURNEY…

There are two kinds of travelers…one who move from one point to another and the other who explore while on the move, making the journey a wholesome experience in itself. I am proud to fall in the second category and never have been able to understand how can there ever be any travel without the experience of the journey!

Even if it’s a mundane 1 hour 45 minutes flight from Mumbai to Chennai for my film shoots I can’t help but make a travelogue of it. Be it observing the people around or trying out something new on the flight…it’s the world I can create between my destinations that makes me look forward to traveling.

My profession as an actor also provides the icing on the cake with shoots being held at beautiful and less explored locales. I will definitely share with you the details of my travel to Kodaikanal for my last film shoot where amidst the work at hand I could not help but take note of my mind keenly grasping the people and the aura of the place like the various different ones I have been to!

As actors we are required to understand the nature and soul of every character that we portray and likewise I tend to understand such character traits of every place I have visited or simply passed through even though with a brisk stop at the road side chaiwallah…

Hence road travel in my own car with my own people gives me that much more scope to explore and experiment and I am glad to having done that consistently over the years since a very young age.

Yes…yes…I owe that to my parents…my mother for being a supremely efficient planner and my dad for being an energetic executor…and of course- ‘ME’ being the ever so curious learner.
The time has come for me to graduate from a learner and take the initiative myself to make my journeys and make them an experience of lifetime…each time…