Abhishek gives insights about career in films
Abhishek recently showed perspicacity about his life and work at a jam-packed London auditorium.

Also present on the stage during the ninety minute session were Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, and Aishwarya Rai.

He began the session by speaking about method acting which he himself did once for three or four days. However, he found it too boring.

He went on to say that being in a powerful medium like cinema, a systematic approach to acting does not go well with the films of Bollywood.

The actor, who majored in performing arts at a University in Boston, didn’t have an ideal beginning in his entertainment career.

Speaking about his early years of struggle, he expressed how he got in as an assistant in the industry, making tea, cleaning studio floors and also working as a driver for Arshad Warsi, because he aimed to move up the hard way even though he had a father who could have backed him up.

After signing his first film Refugee in 2000, Abhishek revealed that he was not fully prepared for the job in the initial few years of his career.

He claimed that in the first years of his career, he wasn’t even serious, and had been making a fool of himself in front of the camera.

Abhishek talks on dubbing and art of crying right
Now having learned the craft after doing forty-two films, he spoke about his first biggest hit in his career ‘Guru’, where he had started mastering the craft, which helped him easily shift from the character of a young man to that of a middle aged man, by just altering his walk, vocal delivery and posture.

The actor also spoke at length about the process of dubbing in a Bollywood film, and informed the use of special sound equipment and positioning of microphones that can create a nice effect to the vocal quality of a character.

For his character of a middle aged man in Guru, Abhishek supposedly used to place cotton wool inside his mouth to get the vocal quality of a middle-aged man.

Elucidating the toughest convolution of being a Bollywood actor, he stated, “The toughest part is to cry on cue. To hold your tear and let it drop at the right angle and at the right time, and make sure it gets picked up in the shot.”

Recollecting shooting days of KANK
Recalling the shooting days of KANK, the actor stated how Sharukh had told him, “I play Shah Rukh Khan in every film because people want to come to the cinema to see Shah Rukh Khan. I act this way purposefully because people want to see that.”

Bachchan Junior also shared his experience about working with Karan Johar, who always insisted that the hero should be lean and look presentable in Manish Malhotra’s clothes, and how Karan, “will murder you if you are a fat.”

Abhishek also jokingly stated, “Karan sometimes performs in front of you and is a terrible actor so whatever he does - anger, sadness, happiness etc, always looks exactly the same, and it just confuses you.”

In the end he summed up by stating "You play with your emotions so callously, no wonder as actors we are completely psychotic."