दर्शील सफारी बोले- इन्फेक्शन के चलते दांत बाहर निकले: दर्दनाक था डेंटल प्रोसीजर, कहा- तारे जमीन का ऑडिशन देते हुए इसका मतलब तक नहीं पता था

Darsheel Safary, who achieved stardom with Taare Zameen, will soon be seen in the film Krishna Aur Chitthi. The film is releasing on 29th May. Recently, in a special conversation with Dainik Bhaskar, Darsheel spoke openly about his career, pressure of perfection, lessons learned from Aamir Khan, theatre, social media and struggles in life.

Darsheel told that after the success of ‘Taare Zameen Par’, he had put a lot of pressure on himself. He also said that for a long time he lived in fear of failure, but theater reconnected him with himself.

Question- How do you look at your journey, the mark you left on Taare Zameen Par Se, was there pressure that every performance should be the same?

answer- 100%. They say that for something you have devoted your entire life, worked for 20-25 years, put in your heart and soul and people liked it, but for me all this has already happened.

Like a six on the very first ball. I was just told that this is called a six, so I swung the bat and it happened.

Then a reverse understanding started for me, because then everything had to be done the same way. How do they match? Then wherever I went, whoever I met, I became a son of their family.

So now I had to do this match, the expectation was set. You had reached your destination, now you have to achieve the same again. The last 15 years have been one of discovery for me. Remained to accept. The things which I could not understand 15 years ago, I started understanding later.

After the pandemic, some confidence started again that now I can start trying things, again I started getting work in films. Worked a little less in ads and more in web series.

Now I felt that yes, I am now on track. I have got this flow, I have got this momentum, how can I build on this and I have turned off the background noise.

Question: Is the background noise putting more load on you?

answer- Absolutely. And this pressure is unfortunately on me, recently I was thinking, no one has put it on me verbally. Not my parents, not my teachers, not my friends. Nobody has. The only question I was asked was what’s next.

I used to put that pressure on myself. You are afraid of failure that I don’t want to fail right now. If I don’t try now, I won’t know what is failure and what is success. So all these things were happening and a lot of time was spent. Many years passed.

During that time I was doing theatre. So it became more critical in the theatre. I started to gain some control over that background noise I am telling you about. And when I got good control, life became very good for me.

Question- You have worked with Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan, the pressure of perfection has given you some guilt too.

answer- 100%. This is a very scary thing. One thing is believed that perfection means that you will not allow even a single error and your observation is so strong. Now I will not say that I learned from Aamir sir because I was too young to understand what perfection meant and did not even know its spelling. But somewhere a standard has been set in my mind that I have to reach here and I have to do this. Now there is no guidance on how to do this and what to do and there should not be any. You have to discover that yourself.

While doing theatre, I realized that I have wasted so much time. Mother guided me that there is a right time for everything.

Question- Remember that moment when you were selected for the first time among hundreds of people?

answer- No. When I auditioned, I didn’t know the meaning of audition. I thought the shooting had started. I was in school uniform. I started telling everyone that I was shooting for the film.

Question- What was told before going to the audition?

answer- This is the scene, these are your lines, imagine that you are now looking outside the window and you are seeing a very cute fish in a pond or a pothole and it is filled with water.

Question: I still remember the image of the scene seen from the window.

answer- I was the only boy who was very distracted and I used to wander around in these things. So it was very easy for me. Then he said if the teacher is going to scold you then you should see what is going on. I had no knowledge of this. Someone shouted at me, I said hey brother why are you shouting? What happened? That teacher scene was not a film for me. There was genuine emotion.

The film was not my performance alone. It belonged to Aamir sir and also to Amol Gupte sir. I also believe that somewhere or the other all the artists have given support.

Question- When did you meet Amol Gupte for the first time?

answer- This was very funny. I was in Shamak Dawar’s dance class. There were two people in his team. He said hi. Normally one does not say hi to strangers, but I was the opposite. I myself used to go to talk to unknown people.

I went to talk to Amol ji. He is such a sweetheart, he used to call me Darsheel, I will not call you Darsheel from today onwards. I said what will you call? He said, I will call you Ustad. So I erased my pet name in my school book and started writing Ustad. I didn’t even know the meaning of Ustad at that time.

Question- When you met Aamir for the second time, how was he?

answer- It didn’t seem like Aamir sir, cap, shorts, t-shirt, hi I am Aamir. So that means something else was going on in my mind that a whole army of bodyguards will come, cameras, photographs, etc. etc.

I saw Lagaan in theatre, Dil Chahta Hai in theatre, Main Sota Tha in theater but I have seen all the films.

Question: Have you ever received rejection because of your iconic look like bunny teeth?

Darsheel- Adenoids are a type of infection in which the tonsils get infected and there are black pits under the eyes and teeth are out. So I had adenoids.

In the film world, it is important to look perfect on screen also. Right now, if I tell you with those teeth, I have to play a very intense political role, but I cannot fit into it. But if I say now that it is a comedy film, then I will fit into it. So I got the dental procedure done again. It was quite painful. Then it feels good.

Question- Did you have fun on the set?

answer- Oh yes, I used to steal people’s walkie-talkies and hide and play hide and seek with them. Question- You are not a Napo kid. How difficult is it to survive?

answer- My mother has also done a little theater and TV. So I don’t know if I’m nepokid or not. You have seen Will Smith, Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith. He openly says, brother, how can I come out of my father’s shadow? You’re going to remember me as Will Smith’s son. I also think the same.

Question- International projects are also coming? Would you like to share something with Mohit and Priyadarshini?

answer- I can’t say much about this. The character I am playing is Sachin Munshi, who has a disability, Degeneration Muscular Dystrophy. I have talked to him about his mindset and after that I probably cried for only two hours. His mindset is that you should not look at me with pity, boss. Don’t pity me. I am fine, this is my condition, I have accepted it, now see what I do. And he has a PhD. They live within a second of a difference between life and death.

The second Indo-Hollywood collaboration is a British project. Where I am a DJ playing 80s 90s. I am excited for it because I love music.

I watched a Bollywood series last year, its continuation will also come. I have also shot a South remake film. In it, Prasad Oak Sir is there, Kabir Duhan Singh is there, Zain Khan Durrani is playing my opposite co-actor.

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