Siddharth Malhotra would love to go back in time to set his
scorecards to a perfect 90% and impress his mom. The lead actor from Student of
the Year who has impressed everyone with his debut in the latest Dharma
Production, Siddharth was an average student in academics but was bent towards
acting and dancing from the very beginning. Born in Surat to an educated
family, Siddharth’s father Rajeev Malhotra is a doctor and mother Leena
Malhotra is a school principal. Expected to follow in their footsteps and
choose engineering as a career, Siddharth instead entered modeling at an early
age of 16 year. From there on he went to win the title of Mr. Gujarat in 2007
and the 2nd runner up award in Gladrags Mega-model & Manhunt
contest in the same year.
As an established model he has walked the ramp for famous
designers Manish Malhotra & Rohit Bal and appeared in the ad campaign of
Roberto Cavelli, apart from being the face on the cover pages of Redbook and
Gladrags. Having proven himself as a model, he took over new a role as an
assistant director. He chose to learn the traits of the career he wanted to
establish himself in. He has also worked as an assistant director in NDTV Good
Times and for Karan Johar in My Name is Khan. Siddharth articulated, “The idea
was always to turn actor. The way I thought about it was that if I had to be in
Hindi films, I had to first learn how to make them. This is the reason why I
took on the role of an AD for My Name
Is Khan. It wasn’t an easy choice though. I was doing well as a model
and knew that as an AD, you could well be treated like a servant. You are
required to do all odd jobs, including even wiping the floors. I wasn’t even a
chief assistant director; I was just one of those many ADs out there”.
Looks like the tough choice made by the young actor prepared
him well, helping him bag a lead role in Karan Johar’s newest movie, Student of
the Year!
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