Anup Soni, known for his roles in 'Crime Patrol' and 'Tandav', opened up about his transition from being a teacher to an actor. Despite having a teaching career and training actors like Akshaye Khanna, he realized his true passion for acting and decided to pursue it full-time.
Actor
Anup Soni
, best known for his roles in ‘Crime Patrol’ and the sensational show ‘Tandav’ has recently opened up aboit his
transition
from a teacher to an actor. Soni, who is a graduate from the
National School of Drama
(NSD), has trained many actors such as Akshaye Khanna, Tara Deshpande, Priyanka Gill.
Actor
Anup Soni has recently opened up about how he became an
acting teacher
, and went on to land roles in films.
In an interview with The Lallantop, Anup revealed that he took the teaching route when he didn’t get much acting assignments, despite being a NSD graduate. “I am a very restless soul, I don’t like sitting idle. I always feel the need to do something,” he shared.
During his teaching career, he has trained Akshaye Khanna, and many other actors, interestingly for a nominal fee of Rs 300 per class. Anup Soni decided to give up his teaching career, as it wasn’t any way helping his acting career, and it was also time-consuming.
“That’s when I realised that I didn’t want to be a teacher, I wanted to be an actor,” he explained. Slowly the frequency of teaching classes went down. “But after a point I didn’t want to get busy teaching. Kishore Namit Kapoor really liked me, I would charge Rs 300 per class, that he increased to Rs 400 and from once a week, I was taking a class four days a week. But I had to leave it,” he reminisced.
WPL Highlights: Shah Rukh Khan teaches signature pose, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan & more perform
Anup Soni also reckoned that the choice to not do something just for money, became a turning point in his life.
English (US) ·