Kartik Aaryan on journey in Bollywood as an outsider: ‘I felt I should have gotten the opportunity rather than someone who is from a film family’

The Chandu Champion actor added, “So, it happens but it’s not their fault. But I think it is wrong when you compare two actors and their journeys because the journey of an outsider is very different from that of an insider.”

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During the event, Kartik Aaryan also recalled giving auditions and facing ‘countless’ rejections. Kartik shared, “For two to three years, I was giving auditions, listening to rejections. Eventually, I got to know about the audition for what became my first film—Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011). I am so lucky that my first opportunity was that film.”

He added, “I got used to it. I became shameless. After a point, you become numb. But you have to show up. You need a little self-belief. When everyone is doubting you, I think you are the only one who can actually save yourself from that doubt. Even after the biggest rejection, I used to think, what can be worse than this? And I used to feel I would only be going up from here. I have always believed in manifestation. I used to write what I wanted. Everything was written in my notebook. I think somewhere down the line everything started happening.”

On the work front, Kartik Aaryan was last seen in Anees Bazmee’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, also starring Triptii Dimri, Vidya Balan and Madhuri Dixit. He has Tu Meri Main Tera and Aashiqui 3 in the pipeline.