My most successful moment was when I worked with Rajnikanth sir, says Sudhanshu Pandey | EXCLUSIVE

‘You may love him or hate him, but cannot ignore him’. Well… that’s the way one can aptly describe the actor Sudhanshu Pandey, who many may know as Vanraj Shah aka Mr. Shah from the most watched and highly rated serial ‘Anupamaa’. Besides being blessed with good looks and acting prowess, Sudhanshu Pandey also happens to be a good singer. He even used to be a part of a all-boy band named ‘Band Of Boys’.

After having achieved so much in life, we, at OTTplay, asked him about what does he attribute his success to. To which, he said, “I've always believed that luck and hard work go hand-in-hand. One can be pure luck as well. But you can be lucky to get an opportunity. You can be lucky to get a second opportunity. But, if you do not work hard, you can't sustain the opportunity, you can't succeed, and you can't sustain the success or your position for a very long time. So, it is imperative that you work very, very hard, even if you're very lucky because without hard work there is no success, at least in the long term”.

In the same breath, he added, “I realised that I am successful the day I started feeling a lot of respect around me for myself. I saw people talking about me. I felt that I really earned a lot of respect in so many years. For me, that is a true measure of success. To me, success is when you achieve a certain position in your career in your industry. But that is one part of success. But success, for me, always meant how much love and respect I've earned from the people who have worked with me and the people who are around me. That is something that completes the definition of success for me.”

When we asked him about his most successful moment in his career journey, pat came the reply, “My most successful moment was when I got a chance to work with Rajnikanth sir. I did a negative role in a film called ‘Robot 2.0’ which gave me an opportunity to work with him. I realised the meaning of true success that day. He has the kind of stardom which I don't think anybody else in this country enjoy. Despite the kind of dizzying heights that he has seen in his life, he's still so grounded and humble.”

Sudhanshu Pandey, then, advised everyone about the role of success in one’s life. He said, “One should always keep in mind that nothing is permanent, neither failure nor success. We have to keep in mind that we will see very good times or very successful times and then we might see really bad times. In order to be able to deal with such ups and downs where we are at crazy heights and to be very stable mentally and stay humble”.

He added, “I think our behaviour is what takes us a long way, in this industry or anywhere in life. Even if you're going through bad times or worse times, that you can't imagine. If your behaviour has been good, your conduct has been good throughout your career, people would still want to work with you and they would. It's only a matter of time before you can resurrect yourself with the help of those people who have always been sure to do for your conduct. So yes, success is not permanent and neither is failure.”

We just couldn’t agree more, Sudhanshu.