Interview: Mohit Raina was rejected by the director on the spot, went home and told a lie – my ad will come soon – mohit raina interview actor talks about his rejection and web series the freelancer

As you know, Mohit Raina has been winning the hearts of people for a long time through serials like ‘Mahadev’, web series like ‘Bhaukaal’ and films like ‘Uri’. These days he is in discussion with the upcoming series ‘The Freelancer’ on Disney+Hotstar on 1 September. Mohit is going to play the character of Avinash Kamat in this series, which revolves around the war environment of Syria. Mohit explains, ‘My character is of a sub-inspector working in the Mumbai Police. Due to the bad situation, he has to leave the job and then how he reforms himself and works at the national level. This series is based on Shirish Thorat’s book A Ticket to Syria.

Gave 19-20 takes for a scene in ‘The Freelancer’

Regarding ‘The Freelancer’, on the question of Deepak Chapru, Mohit says, ‘The creator of this series is well-known filmmaker Neeraj Pandey. When you work with a maker like him, you don’t ask too many questions. I consider myself lucky that they chose me for the role of Avinash Kamat. When I got a call from his office, I had said yes to the role without even reading the script. Many times when you are on the set, it happens that you are seeing the scene from different point of view and the director’s point of view is different, at such times shoot both types of scenes and find the one which is best. , it is kept. Now on the very first day of shooting for Freelancer, I gave up to 19-20 takes in one scene. Neeraj sir was not liking the scene. It was 9:30 in the night, after that the scene was okay.

Celebrated this anniversary with daughter and wife

Recently Mohit has celebrated its 41st anniversary. When the theater reader asked him, what is his birthday wish now? So he told, ‘Right now my birthday wish is that my family should have good health and I believe that health is everything and this time birthday was very special for me because due to work and first there was Kovid and then I was shooting something, so I could never celebrate my birthday with my wife and daughter, so this was my first birthday, which I celebrated with my daughter and wife.

I never thought that I would become Mahadev

When asked if he thought that he would play a divine character like Lord Shiva in his career? So he said, ‘I started my career with modeling. Never thought that I would get a chance to play such a divine character, but things kept happening in my favor. I did not do any special preparation for the role of Mahadev, I had read Puranas related to Lord Shiva. Since I am from Jammu and Kashmir, our second language was Urdu, so I studied it in my childhood, then we came to Jammu, and there my second language Sanskrit helped me a lot.

the director rejected me

Regarding his rejection, he had to say, ‘In the journey of acting, I did not have to go through the experience of rejection, but in the modeling era, I have faced a lot of rejection. I remember, once we had 5 people go for a modeling shoot, but after going to the venue, we came to know that they would select only one of the five of us. When it was my turn to audition, the director rejected me. That day I became very upset because I could not return home, otherwise everyone would make fun of me. I spent the whole day in town and came back at night and lied that my ad would come soon.