People cast me because I’m Balraj Sahni’s son: Parikshit Sahni

“I am not as serious as an actor as my father was. My main love has been writing and direction. I am not very keen (about acting). I am acting only because of him. People cast me because I’m Balraj Sahni’s son, thinking I might know something really good about acting.

“I am not trying to prove anything through acting. I have written some scripts but no one took me seriously as they thought I was an actor. But I do hope people take my other work seriously,” Sahni told PTI.

The 75-year-old actor recently launched the book titled The Non-Conformist: Memories Of My Father Balraj Sahni.

“It is the apt title for my father as he did everything against the grain. My father was a gifted writer, well-read and politically conscious person. I am not politically conscious. My father was a man of ideals. I am a disillusioned man, I am going through a moment of disillusionment and out of this chaos comes something new. I have great faith.”

Sahni says it was a bit tough for him to pen the book.

“Writing of every kind is a struggle. Everything in life is a struggle, depending upon how you see and take things. One has to struggle with oneself.”