Aayush Sharma reveals he was a background dancer on Ranbir Kapoor-Deepika Padukone’s Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani song Dilliwali Girlfriend: ‘I was trying to hide so that…’

 

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During the interview, Aayush Sharma shared that the first time he visited Mehboob Studios in Bandra, Mumbai was for the shoot of “Dilliwali Girlfriend”. Recalling that day. Aayush said, “I came to Mehboob Studios for the first time for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’s shoot and a lot of people asked me why I was working as a background dancer. I was not getting work as an assistant director. I wanted to become a casting director so that I could reach a film set that way. But then that day when I went to Mehboob, there were 300 to 400 background dancers and I was one of them. It was a beautiful moment. I saw Manish Malhotra, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin, and Ranbir Kapoor on set. We were given to do a step for Dilliwali Girlfriend. I was trying to hide in the back so that I don’t get seen in the camera, but they kept calling me ahead. That day I had a craving to go and see behind the monitor. I wanted to see how I looked in front of the camera.”

Aayush also recalled a day in his life when he only had Rs 20 in his pocket. Revisiting that moment, Aayush said that he was standing outside a small food joint in Bandra wondering how would he eat breakfast the next day when he bagged an assignment. He said, “There was a day in my life when I just had 20 rupees. I had no money for breakfast in the morning, so I was having a roll that night and wondering what I would do for breakfast the next day. That time I got a call for a shoot for stock images in Navi Mumbai. I did that. And when I got that call about Antim’s satellite being sold, I was again in front of that food joint and wondered that from 20 rupees to so many crores.”

Aayush Sharma made his acting debut with Loveyatri in 2018, and his next film Antim: The Final Truth released in 2021. His third film Ruslaan is now all set to release on April 26.