It has been an intense ride for with Kohrra (2023) and Asur. So, the actor is changing up things by taking up a slice-of-life comedy in Raat Jawaan Hai. The television’s heartthrob shares that he is instinctively drawn to fun content and uses them as breaks between his intense roles.
We’re not complaining; we’re always excited to see the actor showcase his versatility with his dramatically different roles. In a chat with mid-day, Sobti talks about how the JioCinema show is more about friendship than parenthood and his experience of being father to five-year-old Sifat and one-year-old Meer. ADVERTISEMENT Edited excerpts from the interview.
Lately, I have been doing a lot more intense [shows]. So when this came my way, I decided to take it up because it was against the grain of what was actually working. Everyone seems to be working on dramatic stories, murder mysteries and gangster shows.
Something like this has not been happening much. That’s where I wanted to be, and to top it all, the show is brilliant. In life, my inclination is to make people laugh.
I love doing funny things and being stupid. Raat Jawaan Hai is a slice-of-life, coming-of-age show. It is about people who’ve become parents recently and are still trying to make light of it.
It’s packaged as a coming-of-age, parenting show, but at the heart of it, it is about friendship. It’s hurtful and sad at the same time because this is the time of your life when the responsibility quotient is so high. I’m.