Mohit Raina recalls how an old woman rebuked him for stopping her from touching his feet: ‘That day I gave in…’

“She said, ‘I am not touching your feet.’ You are just the medium for me to connect with my God. You cannot stop me from connecting spiritually to him in those few seconds. That was the day I gave in, realising that I was just a medium for them. I cannot keep them away from that connection,” he shared while talking about fans getting emotional while meeting him.

Mohit Raina in a powerful scene in Mahadev.

While talking about his belief regarding energies, Mohit Raina shared an incident where he fainted during the shoot of the show. He said that it was a scene where he had to shout loudly with his hands wide open. As he wasn’t supposed to make a sound for a wide shot, he opened his mouth gesturing a shout. “At that moment, I stopped breathing and my brain did not get any oxygen. That duration passed the normal limit and I fell flat on the floor. I regained consciousness after a few seconds and realised what had happened,” he shared, adding that he felt bad energies seeping into him in that low moment.

Mohit Raina on breaking out of ‘Lord Shiva’ image

In a recent conversation with indianexpress.com, we discussed with Mohit how playing mythological characters on screen leaves a lifelong impact on audiences’ minds. Earlier this year, the Adipurush team received backlash for its colloquial language and modern looks, pressing on the fact that viewers like to see such characters in a certain way. However, Mohit Raina shared that he did not face issues trying to break out from his image. “Earlier, during Ramayan and Mahabharat, people believed these actors to be gods. But now, with social media and actors appearing at different events, that image gets broken easily. I think I was just lucky to have never faced anything like that.”