Akin most star kids who grow up watching their parents act, accompany them on-sets, bond with the film fraternity and eventually become part of same industry as well, Sikandar Kher was no exception.
Son of famed actors, Anupam and Kirron Kher, Sikandar aspired to be an actor since the tender age of four! The lad missed the opportunity of learning the craft from his father at his new acting school and opted for an unconventional medium – assisting directors to hone his acting skills.
In an interview with Businessofcinema.com, Sikandar Kher gets vocal about his passion for acting and sports, experience of working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Yash Chopra and also candidly admits, ‘I’m no chocolate hero material.’
‘When I was four, I wanted to be like Tom Cruise’
At the age of four, Sikandar knew he wanted to grow up to become an actor. “After I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be an air force pilot. But after a week, I realized that I actually wanted to be Tom Cruise. So, it was always acting for me. I always wanted people to look at me and clap.”
As Sikandar matured from a healthy kid to an overweight teenager, his belief in himself and his acting prowess also grew. “From the time I was young and fat and then older and fat, and older and fatter, I always wanted to be an actor. When I weighed 140 kilos and people would ask me what I wanted to do in life, I would say, ‘acting’. They would assume I wanted to be a villain or a comedian. But I would tell them, ‘No I want to be a Hero’. If it was not acting, it would have been sports!”
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