Abhishek Bachchan celebrates his
birthday
today. The actor turned 49 and is having a working birthday which is a ritual he follows every year. On his birthday, here’s recalling the time when Abhishek had spoken about how he has evolved now, as compared to when he started his career in 2000 with ‘Refugee’. During a chat with ETimes, he had reflected on his journey and failures.
He had said, “When you’re in your youth, it’s like you against the world because you’re starting off and want to prove something, but sometimes in life, things don’t go your way or as you planned them. Only with some experience and maturity, you realise that it wasn’t that things weren’t going your way, they were just going as per the plan. It’s just that you weren’t looking at it in the right way. A saying goes, there are no mistakes, they’re just learnings and only time and maturity teaches you that. Today I feel and if anyone asks me, I tell them that it’s very important to fail because failing will help you become a better version of yourself.
Failure
or not achieving your goal at that point of time, is the world’s way of telling you that you’re not ready for it or not worthy enough, so work on yourself more.”
The actor who is hugely involved in sports as well had given the example of sportsmen and added, “If you ask any great sportsman, they’ll tell you the same thing – before they made that last winning shot, they’ve missed 10,000 before that, but it’s those 10,000 which prepared them for that one winning shot. Everyone has their own way of looking at it. When people come and tell me, ‘oh people are finally realising your worth’, I don’t think that word finally is correct. They do it at the right time. 20 years ago maybe, I wasn’t worthy of that.”
The actor had also reflected on his presence on
social media
and how he is active and likes to share things, but not all the time. “I think I’m very clear of what I don’t want to do now and I’ve made peace with the repurcussions of that. For example, if today the trend (I don’t like that word) or mood today on social media is that people need to be aware of what you’re doing, I can’t do that. I tried but I can’t because that’s not on my priority list. If I am driving to work, then I’d much rather listen to music or go through my scenes of the day or preparing for what I need to do. I’m okay with not being in the news 24/7. I don’t want to be in the news 24/7.”
He had elaborated on how he wants his work to talk. “I want my films to do the talking. With experience and maturity, you realise that’s how it should be. I cannot affect change to my film, the film has to be good. I have to be good in a film and the film has to be good, all these other things are just white noise. So, that’s when you draw a line between the things which you need to do and things which aren’t important enough to be done,” said Abhishek.
Ankita Kanabar
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