Actor Anjumm Shharma, who is awaiting the release of his upcoming streaming series ‘Sultan of D🌞elhi’, earlier worked as an assistant director to Aanand L. Rai, in the initial phase of the career.
It w𒐪as during the scr🗹ipting of the superhit film ‘Tanu Weds Manu part 1’ that Anjumm decided to make a move into acting.
In fact, it was the ‘Atrangi Re’ director who pushed Anju🍌🐼mm for his first workshop.
Talking about the same, Anjumm said: "This was the time when Aanand sir was scripting 'Tanu Weds Manu part 1' and I had thought of moving ahead. While I was assisting him, I had decided ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthat I want to explore and venture into the work of performing arts. I remember telling𒁃 him one afternoon that I want to pursue acting. In fact, he only suggested my first ever acting workshop. Soon after two months of the acting workshop, I started giving auditions across various mediums -- films, ads and television."
Soon the actor b🐼agged two big shows on televiꦑsion but decided to let them go because he felt he needed to work more on himself as an actor.
The actor said: "I got two leading television shows as a lead but I turned it down because I believed I was still not ready, instead I started doing theatre. Everyone around ꧅me highly criticised this decision as I had declined a supposedly big television offer. But call it my stubborn༒ness or clarity, I know if I want to pursue acting, I need to be trained."
Talking about his transition from theatre to films, Anjumm said: "It was smooth. I was very content when I was working extensively in theatre. I enjoyed it and learnt a꧟ lot and because of that I met Bejoy Nambiar💮 and he offered me ‘Wazir’ with Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar. It was a big leap in my acting career just to work and be around such stalwarts. But that didn't do much for me as an actor. I went back and started doing theatre again, almost starting afresh until another possible opportunity came to me a few years later as the world of entertainment industry underwent a change in terms of OTT and then ‘Mirzapur’ happened."
‘Sultan of D🌸elhi’ is set to stream on Disney+ Hotstarಞ from October 13.
