So I left acting altogether.”. Manav seems to have found his groove in the grey zone, and in his last film Wazir, his turn as a cold-blooded Kashmiri politician was much lauded, and the film was the first big hit of 2016. I just stood in the lane for sometime and came back.” His roles so far have been largely layered ones with tinges of grey.”Manav’s initial days in Mumbai were more dramatic than he had expected them to be. That week itself, the police came home and took us to the police station and asked us who killed Gulshan Kumar. “But I realised I wasn’t ready for it and I didn’t enjoy it either. They liked it and I was on board,” Manav says. I created the character in a different way and Hansal sir also gave me a free hand. I will always continue to do it, because I love it. But I opened the door and found the place where I used to hide toffees. “The scene where I come and sit down to talk to my daughter and ask her about Farhan’s character, I improvised it and showed it to China LED truck lights China origin Bejoy. People told me that it gave them goosebumps,” he says. After a prolonged work schedule, the actor got to spend one night with his family in Indore, before leaving for Bhopal. His last film Wazir, where he played a Kashmiri terrorist-turned politician, had taken him further down the memory lane during the making.”The talented actor is now waiting for the launch of his first book, a collection of short stories that releases in March. It was funny,” he says. Then we faced what every other refugee faces and my father had to sell off the property. I like to have fun with my characters. Upon reaching Bhopal, he managed to make some time to speak to us over the phone. “It was 17 years ago. Manav KaulThe name Manav Kaul may not be as familiar as his face, but he’s one actor who has been quietly making the industry sit up and take notice. Joseph’s School and the hospital where I was born. I vividly remember the smell of Kashmir — the kehwa and the rajma-chawal and of course my friends,” says the actor.
