I only live in the present: Ayushmann Khurrana

I am a kid at heart. I live only in the present. I don’t think about what will happen in the future. Even when we composed songs in college, we did it for the love of music. I never thought or even hoped Paani Da would be in a movie some day.

I think the basic nature must remain untouched. People now want a piece of me. But my heart is still beating the way it used to. I still remember when I came to Mumbai, I auditioned for television at Balaji Films while Yashraj was a distant dream.

He was the first to congratulate me when my film Vicky Donor was released. I saw his film Ishaqzaade pretty late. But when I watched it on DVD, I congratulated him. At the awards, we sat together and chatted. Now we’re both working for Yashraj films.

Yes. He called me up. In fact, he was quite surprised that I wasn’t signing any new films.

I wasn’t getting good offers. I wasn’t desperate. Even before I did Vicky Donor, I waited for four years. So after my first film, I was short listing the offers. Adi was impressed by the fact that being a newcomer, I wasn’t impatient. He offered me a three-film deal and I accepted.

I was happier when I was an anchor. I used to be free to spend time with her for at least ten days every a month.

My wife doesn’t like shopping and neither do I. We like traveling. Our latest destinations are all the Sufi shrines across the world. Sufism attracts her a lot. In fact, she’s doing a paper on spiritualism. So we travel for pleasure and her work.

It has multiplied for sure. It doesn’t affect me. Earlier too, I was recognised because I was a known anchor on television. The transition from television to the big screen was gradual and smooth.