It’s at all times fascinating to look at an actor’s initiation into the movie trade and map their potential from their first outing to their shot within the limelight subsequent to A-listers. In a reasonably brief span, Prit Kamani went from debuting in Hum Chaar, a comparatively smaller movie to bagging a task alongside Manisha Koirala in Maska. And earlier than he knew it, he discovered himself enjoying Shahid Kapoor’s on-screen son in Jersey. While many will recognise him from the sports activities flick or his stints in OTT sequence together with Middle-Class Love and Feels Like Home, his journey as an aspiring performer started a lot earlier. He talks about his early initiation into the craft.
He smiles, “I was very young. I was a toddler when I started acting. My parents knew I had an interest because whenever I watched a film, I would be in the zone of that film. When I watched DDLJ, I was engrossed in Raj’s character for a week. I would talk like him and dress like him.” Prit fondly recollects his father taking him to auditions and display screen assessments the best way one would join extracurricular actions.
He describes the casting course of for Jersey as fascinating. It occurred bang in the midst of lockdown when the actor had saved his hair and beard lengthy, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise as one of many assistants discovered him on Instagram and realised he had the potential to be Shahid’s grown up child. “They wanted someone who does look like Shahid Kapoor but doesn’t really act like him or copy him. The director wanted him to look like a hero but not be a hero. So it was a very complicated casting procedure,” he explains.
As the newcomer muses over his filmography, he declares that his philosophy is to win hearts. And he is aware of each little bit counts as a step in direction of that. “I had joked with my mother that my film would stay in the theatres for six months at least. While Hum Chaar didn’t stay in theatres for long, I did an ad film that ran for two years in theatres. It was crazy how, no matter which film you went for, you had to watch my ad film first. And that was a sign for me that no matter where life takes you, it has a way of giving back.”
The love for appearing typically stems from a love for cinema, and Prit talks of getting an urge for food for a various vary of movies. . “I enjoy everything from Rohit Shetty’s action movies to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s drama. The films that have really influenced me are all the ’90s Bollywood films. I’ve gobbled them up. I love every Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Govinda film of that era.”
He’s watched every part between Cinema Paradiso, Life Is Beautiful, and Bicycle Thieves and discovering new cinematic gems to look at has turn out to be his ardour. “The authenticity that stems from these films really inspired me. They help me navigate what kind of films I want to do and what kinds of filmmakers I want to work with,” he states.
Every budding actor has a wishlist, and Kamani’s is in depth. Says he, “I need to work with Alia Bhatt for positive as a result of I’ve the most important crush on her. She’s implausible. Working with a greater actor or a senior actor will assist me get higher at my job. It’s a egocentric factor. I additionally need to work with Naseeruddin Shah and Shah Rukh Khan. The late Om Puri was one other actor I actually wished to work with, however sadly, he’s now not with us.” And lastly he provides, “I need to work with Kajol ma’am simply because I’ve been a ’90s fan all my life.”