1 The most bizarre pick-up line ever used by you or on you?
It has to be by me on my wife — and this is exactly what I told her, ‘I like you and I know you like me. So it’s more like there’s no option. Thanks.’ It left her rolling her eyes and wondering if I was okay.
2 What does theatre mean to you?
Arre yaar, it’s bread and butter to me... and a passion that pays!
3 If you weren’t doing what you were doing, what would you be doing?
You’d definitely see me in anything but a 9-5 desk job! And now that anything can be anything. Hope you geddit!
4 Three things you never leave the home without and a guilty pleasure?
Phone, patience and nowadays, my mind! Vegetable cutlet from Indian Coffee House that’s dripping with oil and a lot of foreign particles. And I still relish every bit of it!
5 If you were given a supernatural power for about half-an-hour, what would you do first?
I’ll probably ask for an extension of another 30 minutes. I need time to select stuff from my wishlist.
6 That one fashion trend which you just don’t understand?
Wearing khadi and Levis jeans and calling it desi. Indian men always do it and it’s plain absurd!
7 True love or a million bucks?
Million bucks from the love makes it true!
8 An eerie fan moment?
A guy once followed me for about two kilometres on the busy streets of Malleswaram, just to smile at me and tell me that he only watched me the entire time during one of the plays. And that’s all he said, before he walked away.
9 One quirky trait that people are better off not knowing?
I’m a bathroom dancer — and a very good one at that. Oh wait, you wouldn’t know…would you?
10 A song you’d never delete from the playlist, and why?
Track from Namma Metro, my theatre production. It’s special because it’s the first-ever song that we recorded!
— As told to Pooja Prabhan
