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Vikas: Though I got recognition after Panchayat, I didn't get a place to stay
Updated On: 28 July, 2023 08:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Hiren Kotwani
Chandan Roy | Actor | It took multiple auditions, two stints in Mumbai and one popular web series for the city to accept Roy. But now that he is here, he is raring to go
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Chandan Roy’s favourite eatery in the city is Pancham Puriwala near Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Pic/Aishwarya Deodhar
It could be a scene right out of a ’70s Hindi movie. A wide-eyed, hopeful man alights from the train at Bandra Terminus, and on the pretext of picking up his dropped handkerchief, touches his forehead to the ground. His “pranaam” to the land that he hopes will take care of him now. That’s a tad filmi, we tell Chandan Roy. But he proudly says, “My haav-bhaav is all filmi.” To him, he is that filmi boy who made his way from Mahnar, Bihar to Mumbai to chase the Bollywood dream. To the rest of us, he is the good-natured assistant Vikas Shukla in his breakthrough series, Panchayat.
After completing his education in Patna and working at Dainik Jagran in Delhi for two-and-a-half years, Roy first arrived in Mumbai in October 2017. What followed is the classic script of a struggling actor—sharing his first accommodation with five people in Versova, giving countless auditions, seeing his savings of R60,000 diminish over four months. Within weeks of his stay, he noticed a shift in him. “Whoever comes to Mumbai, becomes a believer. Someone told me that whenever new people come to the city, they visit the MumbaDevi temple in Bhuleshwar. So, after about a month, I went to seek the Devi’s blessings.”
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