This story is from September 12, 2014

Good content will drive Gujarati films' growth

Pratik Gandhi on his Gujarati movie debut in Bey Yaar
Good content will drive Gujarati films' growth
An engineer by profession who is smitten by the acting bug, actor Pratik Gandhi has always been open to multitasking when it comes to juggling between Gujarati theatre and his job as an engineer. So, when Dhollywood film Bey Yaar happened to the martial arts freak Pratik, it simply motivated him to don the greasepaint because that ���makes him happy���.
Pratik, who was in Ahmedabad recently, talks about his life, ability to juggle between his different work while also taking out quality time for the family (he recently became a father), and Gujarati cinema.
Excerpts from the chat:
Were you apprehensive before taking up a Gujarati script? No. Not all. As they say in pakku Gujarati, ���aangik, vachik��� I am totally into performing arts and have been doing Gujarati theatre since I was six. So, when a Gujarati film offer came by, I felt excited to be a part of it because I felt, this was where I could contribute a lot. My first nrityantika happened in Surat in school and since then I have been pursuing theatre passionately.
How do you think can Gujarati films increase their reach? Honestly speaking, like many youngsters, I also used to flip through channels to watch a Gujarati movie only to either laugh at the content or annoyed by the lack of quality of the movies. There are only a handful of movies like Dikri To Parki Thapan Kevaye, which I watched with my grandmom, that I remember apart from select films that are considered iconic. I didn���t take up Gujarati movies all these years because of the same reason.
Do you intend to continue doing Gujarati movies? I would love to do more Gujarati films because I am looking forward to seeing the Gujarati film industry reach to the level where other regional film industries have reached today. Gujarati theatre is doing so well. And Gujarati films too will do well, provided one offers good plots and stories.
How do you manage to multitask? I do juggle between a lot of things and that���s what I am good at. Of course, personal life is affected by the kind of work commitments I have. Doing theatre while pursuing my profession as an engineer and now also doing films is difficult to juggle. This is a tough decision which I have taken and my family supports me because my wife is also an actress. In fact, my daughter Miraya was born in March while I was shooting for Bey Yaar and that point of time I should have been ideally with my wife, but I was finishing off with the shooting part. So, taking these kind of decisions is always inevitable.
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