Aparshakti Khurana’s father hit him with a cricket bat for disrespecting his guru, promised he’ll never make it as a player: ‘Even if Brahma Vishnu Mahesh…’

Aparshakti Khurana recalled when his father hit him with a bat for disrespecting his cricket coach, and wondered if the warning his dad gave him that day was the reason why he could never make it as a cricketer.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | October 25, 2024 09:25 AM IST

3 min read

Aparshakti Khurana recalled his cricket days in a recent interview. (Photo: Aparshakti Khurana/Instagram)

Before he made it as an actor, Aparshakti Khurana dreamed of being a star cricketer in the Indian team. As a young boy in Chandigarh, he devoted all his time and energy to the sport. In a recent interview, Aparshakti reflected on a core memory from his cricketing days, and wondered if he did not make it as a player because he once disrespected his coach. Aparshakti recalled how, after a practice session at the cricket academy one day, his dad beat him up with a bat all the way from to their house because he’d been benched for disrespecting his coach.

Talking to Shubhankar Mishra on his YouTube channel, Aparshakti said that he became insecure about his captaincy when his coach recruited a couple of senior players for the team. Aparshakti tried to hatch a plan where the other team’s coach would raise an objection about lending his players. The next day, when Aparshakti showed up for the practice, he was benched. “I was too naive to understand that the coaches of the two teams would be friends with each other,” he said.

While Aparshakti was sitting on the sidelines, his father showed up unexpectedly. “As fate would have it, my father just happened to come to the academy that day during his morning run. My father saw I wasn’t playing and asked the coach why, and the coach told him what I had done,” he recalled, and added, “You will not believe that for one kilometre, from the academy to our house, he hit me with a bat. And that day, he said something, I don’t know if people will resonate with it today, he said the one who disrespects one’s guru… he said even if Brahma Vishnu Mahesh (Hindu gods) land on this earth all together, they can’t help you get into the Indian national team, because you have disrespected your guru.”

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Aparshakti said that “maybe that’s the reason that I… I don’t know.. maybe there were some energies that I felt like my mind is diverted.” The Dangal actor said that since that day, he has never disrespected anyone kind of teacher. “Since that day, I have never disrespected… Even today, if someone who is younger than me and comes to train me in the gym, I only call him sir and there is never a point that I disrespect him.”

Aparshakti has been an actor since 2016. He was recently seen in Stree 2 and Berlin.

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