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After making headlines for his stunning body transformation, Ram Kapoor has, for the first time, opened up about his experience of working with Prachi Desai in the Zee TV show Kasamh Se (2006), where he played the lead role opposite a 17-year-old Prachi. Ram was in his 30s then. In a recent conversation, Ram revealed his thoughts on the significant age gap between him and his co-star, and whether he felt awkward about it.
“I was the main lead, I was the hero and I had a 17-year-old opposite me, what is the problem? The story was such! She was 17 when she started working. When we went to Dubai for shooting I had to sign a form and become her legal guardian to enter the country. But the story was such and I trusted Ekta (Kapoor, the maker of the show). I trusted her casting. At that time she (Prachi) was totally new but look at how fantastic she was in Kasamh Se,” he said in an interview with Siddharth Kannan.
Ram also shared his thoughts on the apprehensions that come with being an actor. “How can you have apprehensions if you want to be an actor? Otherwise you become a dhobi and wash clothes! You want to be an actor! That means you want to do anything and everything. You want to do roles 20 years older, you want to do roles younger… you want to work with children… How can you have (apprehensions)? Are you an actor or not?” he exclaimed.
Ram revealed that he is still in touch with Prachi, affectionately referring to her as “Bacchi hai meri (She is like my child)”. He shared, “Bilkool. Bacchi hai meri. Recently, about a year or so back, we met up and also shared a picture on Instagram.”
When questioned about Prachi’s career trajectory, which seemed to stall despite her promising start as a TV actress, Ram offered his insights. “I don’t know. She is another person who left television for films. But she left it for the right film because she left Kasamh Se for Rock On (2008) opposite Farhan Akhtar. Rock On became a hit. Nobody at that time… I could not point a finger at her and ask, ‘Prachi, what are you doing?’ Yes we had a superhit show but Rock On is a Farhan Akhtar film and she is playing his wife, opposite him. So it wasn’t a secondary role. So technically she didn’t do anything wrong. After that I don’t know what she did or didn’t do. You have to make the right choices. If you are lucky enough to get work then you have to make the right choices. If you make one wrong choice, maybe you are lucky enough to get a second chance. Make two wrong choices, ‘bye bye.’”
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