Anurag Kashyap had called the ’12th Fail’ actor a fugitive: Harish Khanna said- the director used to taunt him, Bhansali had returned his biodata

The last stop for actors associated with theatre is films, but actor Harish Khanna left films because of theatre. Due to which director Anurag Kashyap called him a fugitive. Harish has recently appeared in the role of Manoj Sharma’s father in Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s film ’12th Fail’ and Parvat in the film ‘Barah Bai Barah’. Recently, during a conversation with Dainik Bhaskar, the actor made interesting revelations related to his career. Did not know about NSD Harish Khanna said- My parents migrated from Lahore to Kota, Rajasthan. I was born in Kota. I did my junior school from Delhi and high school from Jammu. I also did college from there. Balwant Thakur’s Natarang Drama Group was there. When I joined his group, I came to know that there is an institution called NSD. Before this I did not know about NSD. Joined NSD and came to Mumbai in 1993. Bhansali had returned my biodata. When I came to Mumbai, I lived in PMGP Colony, Andheri East. At that time mostly strugglers lived there. Because that place was cheaper than other places. Anurag Kashyap, Anup Soni lived there with us. At that time the biggest expense was in getting the photo printed and distributing it in the office. I had given my biodata to Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The biodata also had a colour photo printed. At that time it cost Rs 100 to get one copy made. Bhansali called the next day and said take it away, it is very expensive. At that time people thought that a struggler should not spend much money. Left films for theatre. Initially got a chance to work in films like ‘Sanshodhan’ and ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ with Govind Nihalani. After this I did Milan Luthria’s film ‘Kacche Dhaage’. During this time our drama teacher Anamika Haksar invited me for a play. That play was performed everywhere from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. When that play ended, I got another play by Dr Anuradha Kapoor. That too ran for a year. After that, I got a British Council scholarship in 1999 and went to London for two years. There I was doing professional theatre along with studying in a drama company. Anurag Kashyap used to taunt me. I never thought that I was leaving films because of theatre. I thought I was doing acting. When I came back, Anurag Kashyap said that your friends have reached great heights. You ran away to Delhi. In his eyes, I had run away, but I had not run away. I just wanted to act. At that time, I did not have enough understanding that I have to do films to earn money. I just wanted to do good work, be it theatre or films. I came back with Tigmanshu Dhulia’s film. When I came back in 2004, Tigmanshu Dhulia gave me a very important role in ‘Charas’. After that, I got work in Sujit Sarkar’s first film ‘Yahan’. Vishal Bhardwaj gave me work in Rangoon, Kaminey, Saat Khoon Maaf, Anurag Kashyap gave me work in ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Meanwhile, I started doing independent cinema.

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