When Vicky Kaushal Remembered His Engineering Days

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Before Vicky Kaushal found success in Bollywood, he was a shy engineering student who didn't know what he wanted to do. He spoke candidly about his college days and acting journey in this 2019 interaction. The actor turns 33 today. Thanks to UPG's LitFest for the footage.

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00:00The manliness that engineering has instilled in me

00:03I don't know what my kids will do in the future

00:05But I will definitely put them in engineering

00:07That was the first time I thought

00:09Actor?

00:10And I still remember that moment

00:12When I was looking into the mirror and I said

00:14When I was doing my engineering

00:16In the second year

00:17The college faculty took us to an industrial visit

00:20To show us that kids, this is your future

00:22You know when you pass out

00:23You complete your graduation

00:25This is how an MNC looks

00:27That was

00:28That one day that I felt something so purely in my life

00:31For the first time

00:32That when I went inside

00:33I'm like

00:34This is not for me

00:36Exactly not what I want

00:37This

00:38Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk

00:39Is not for me

00:40Then what is it that I really enjoy doing

00:43So the answer was

00:44Performing

00:45Performing

00:46For the audience

00:47And that was the first time I thought

00:49Actor?

00:51And I still remember that moment

00:53When I was looking into the mirror and I said

00:56And then I looked at myself from top to bottom

00:59And I'm like

01:01And then I'm like

01:02But I don't have a choice

01:03To be honest

01:04I really had a ball of a time doing engineering

01:06Oh

01:07I don't know what my kids will do in future

01:09But I will definitely put them in engineering

01:13Because

01:14I have found the best of my friends over there

01:16And

01:17Till my engineering

01:19I was a very shy, coy boy

01:22Who was not street smart

01:24Who was just

01:25Poor guy

01:26The manliness that engineering has instilled in me

01:32Because in engineering

01:34It's like

01:36It teaches you

01:37It teaches you

01:38I finished that

01:39And then in 2009

01:40Is when I started my journey as an actor

01:42I still remember the date was

01:4524th of July 2009

01:47And it was the first day of my acting course

01:49And then they asked that

01:50How do you want your next 5 years to be like

01:52And where do you see yourself in the next 5 years

01:54And I really am not a big fan of this question

01:57Because I don't know what I'm going to do in the next 5 minutes

02:00And I really don't want to know where I'm going to be

02:03Sometimes

02:04Where you think you're going to be in the next 5 years

02:06Is much smaller than what God has planned for you

02:08So I don't want to limit myself in that thought process

02:11But still

02:15So I just answered that

02:16Sir, it will take 5 years or 6 years

02:19You'll see my poster

02:21In front of a cinema hall

02:22And I just said that

02:24I just said that with all belief

02:26That it will take 5-6 years

02:27I'll do theatre

02:28I'll assist somebody

02:29I'll do behind the scene work

02:31And I'll be there

02:33This was 24th July 2009

02:35And 24th July 2015

02:37Was the day when Masaan released

02:39And my poster was there

02:40On a cinema hall

02:41My first ever audition was after

02:43I was an assistant on Gangs of Wasseypur

02:45With Anurag Kashyap

02:46And I remember this was for the film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

02:49Not for the lead part

02:50But a friend's part in the film

02:52Which eventually got edited out heavily

02:56I remember the casting director Haneet Rehan

02:58He was one of the sweetest fellows in the industry

03:00He took out like 3 hours for me

03:03He called me to his office

03:05And we were trying to crack a scene

03:07And that day I realised

03:12I can't act

03:13Because in 3 hours

03:15I could see it in their behaviour

03:17How much they are really trying to make me act

03:20But I just couldn't

03:21I just couldn't

03:23And that night

03:24I was thinking

03:25Did I read the job interview letter correctly or not?

03:28Because here I feel like I have to do anything

03:31Till about Uri

03:33Uri and Manmarziya have been the only two films

03:36That I have not given a screen test for

03:38I just got picked up by the director

03:41That you will do this role

03:42Otherwise every other film

03:45Every other film

03:47Be it Razi

03:48Sanju

03:49Masaan

03:50Raman Raghav

03:51Love Per Square Foot

03:52Zubaan

03:53My first break

03:56Every other film I got it

03:58Through a screen test

04:00So I could count the number of films on my fingers

04:03But I have given at least

04:061000 to 2000 to 3000 auditions

04:09Out of them

04:10I have got 8 films

04:13So the failure rate is much higher

04:16Much much higher

04:17But the important thing is to just keep walking

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