‘At 18, I Decided To Pursue An MBBS Degree, So I Gave Up Acting’

‘In

Krrish,
I
was
playing
Hrithik’s
child
version.’
‘I
also
did

Ishq
Vishk
with
Shahid.’
‘In

Aetbaar,
I
remember
doing
scenes
with
Amitabh
Bachchan.’

The
little
boy
who
played
Hrithik
Roshan’s
younger
version
in
2003’s

Koi…
Mil
Gaya
is
all
grown
up.

Mickey
is
now
an
eye
surgeon,
who
has
lovely
memories
of
going
to
work
as
a
child
with
Amitabh
Bachchan
(Aetbaar),
Abhishek
Bachchan
and
Aishwarya
Rai
(Dhai
Akshar
Prem
Ke)
and
Shahid
Kapoor
(Ishq
Vishk).

He
quit
acting
after
doing
300
plus
ads
and
even
working
with
Julia
Roberts
in

Eat,
Pray,
Love
to
pursue
a
career
in
medicine.

“Julia
Roberts
is
the
most
beautiful
human
being
I’ve
ever
seen
in
my
life,”
Dr
Mickey
tells

Patcy
N/Rediff.com.

‘I
started
acted
in
ads
at
age
five’

My
mother,
a
home-maker,
had
an
opportunity
to
become
an
actress.
She
was
offered
a
movie
role
but
the
family
did
not
appreciate
it,
so
it
did
not
pan
out.

One
day,
she
was
traveling
with
me
in
the
train,
and
she
met
a
friend
who
was
working
for
an
ad
agency.
That
friend
said,
‘Your
son
is
cute.’

Her
passion
was
channelised
through
me,
one
thing
led
to
another,
a
photo
shoot
led
to
calls,
and
it
just
grew
from
there.

I
started
acted
in
ads
at
age
five.
I
think
my
first
ad
was
Doy
soap.

Then
I
worked
in
a
serial
called

Gharwali
Uparwali
(2000),
starring
Mukul
Dev
and
Nikki
Aneja.
It
was
a
good
experience.

I
remember
everybody
would
wear
the
same
clothes.
If
one
is
wearing
red,
the
entire
family
would
wear
red.

Later,

Gharwali
Uparwali
Aur
Sunny
(2003)
was
entirely
based
on
me.

‘Nervousness
has
never
been
emotion
for
me’

In
2000,
I
did
my
first
film,

Dhai
Akshar
Prem
Ke
with
Abhishek
Bachchan
and
Aishwarya
Rai.

I
remember
meeting
Amitabh
Bachchan
at
the
time
too.

I
was
just
starting
off
but
nervousness
has
never
been
emotion
for
me.

My
parents
would
say
that
I
was
this
child,
who
would
start
dancing
whenever
something
came
on
TV.

I
would
take
off
my
shirt
and
imitate
actors.

‘Hrithik
Roshan
gave
us
Bounty
chocolates’

I
remember
that
my
results
had
been
announced
around
the
time
I
did

Koi…
Mil
Gaya
and
my
sister
and
I
had
topped
the
class.
Hrithik
Roshan
gave
us
Bounty
chocolates;
we
were
in
Manali
with
him.

I
would
go
to
his
house
because
he
had
to
teach
me
his
body
language.

He
was
playing
a
mentally
challenged
person,
and
I
had
to
have
a
similar
body
language,
like
the
way
my
hands
were,
the
way
I
would
talk,
walk,
tilt
my
head…

I
hold
Director
Rakesh
Roshan
in
very
high
regard
because
his
approach
to
everything
was
very
family-oriented.

In
Manali,
we
would
have
dinner
together
after
the
shoot.

There
was
a
time
when
we
had
to
come
back
for
our
exams
and
then
go
back.

He
had
called
me
up
and
and
said,
when
you
come,
just
get
Jhama’s
Gulab
Jamun
for
me.
He
is
very
warm
and
welcoming.

After
my
MBBS,
my
mother
and
I
had
visited
him
a
couple
of
years
ago.

We
asked
him,
what
do
we
do?
Should
we
consider
acting?

He
said,
‘First
finish
your
education
properly
and
become
whatever
you
wish
to
specialise
in.
Acting
is
always
there.
You
get
that
chance
at
education
only
once.’

‘I
remember
doing
scenes
with
Amitabh
Bachchan’

In

Krrish,
I
was
playing
Hrithik’s
child
version,
so
I
did
not
have
scenes
with
Priyanka
Chopra.

But
during
a
shoot,
people
are
together,
especially
for
dinner,
so
I
got
a
chance
to
meet
her.

I
also
did

Ishq
Vishk
with
Shahid
Kapoor
and
Amrita
Rao.

I
remember
wearing
white
clothes
and
that
Shahid
had
a
Toyota
at
the
time.

In

Aetbaar,
I
remember
doing
scenes
with
Amitabh
Bachchan.
We
drove
in
the
same
car.

‘Julia
Roberts
is
the
most
beautiful
human
being
I’ve
ever
seen
in
my
life’

Eat,
Pray,
Love
was
the
last
film
I
did.
I
was
17
or
18.

I
met
Julia
Roberts
but
no
recording
was
allowed
on
the
set.
It
was
a
very
strict
system.

I
think
she
is
the
most
beautiful
human
being
I’ve
ever
seen
in
my
life.

She’s
beautiful
and
yet
so
humble.

‘She
carries
an
aura’

Julia
Roberts
and
I
had
a
good
conversation
for
a
couple
of
minutes,
and
she
asked
about
me,
‘What
do
you
do?
Where
are
you
from?’

It
was
like
a
friend
speaking
to
somebody,
who
was
younger
than
her.

She
made
me
comfortable
on
set.

When
I
would
perform,
she
would
also
be
around.

She
would
also
guide
me
like,
‘Don’t
do
this,
do
that’.

She
carries
an
aura.

‘I
became
an
eye
surgeon
because
I
had
very
high-powered
glasses
as
a
child’

At
18,
I
decided
to
pursue
an
MBBS
degree,
so
I
gave
up
acting.

My
grandfather
was
a
doctor,
and
my
parents
are
highly
qualified.

My
father
is
a
businessman
and
my
sister
is
a
lawyer.
Education
has
always
been
important
in
our
house.

I
became
an
eye
surgeon
because
I
had
very
high-powered
glasses
as
a
child.

Back
then,
there
was
no
Google
and
my
mother
was
never
counselled
by
the
doctors
that
glasses
are
not
problematic.

She
was
always
scared
that
my
eye
number
would
keep
increasing.

Later,
I
discovered
it’s
such
a
simple
thing
that
can
be
solved
by
lasers.

I
have
green
eyes,
and
I
would
wonder
why
only
I
have
this
colour,
and
no
one
else.

Plus,
my
mom
had
cataract
in
her
40s.

I
realised
there
are
so
many
things
around
the
eyes
that
this
is
something
I
want
to
specialise
in.

I
have
been
an
eye
surgeon
for
three
years
now.

I
am
interested
in
acting
as
long
as
my
job
as
an
eye
surgeon
doesn’t
get
affected
by
it.
Acting
is
my
passion.