While people go to college to build a career, Harshvardhan Rane chose to go the other way round. After becoming an actor, he chose to pursue his graduation in Psychology Honors and last month, he took his first-year exams. “There’s still two more years to go but I do feel a sense of fulfilment.
There was always this void of not completing my education to become an actor. In the last few years, there has been some sense of belongingness within the industry, maybe just from my side. So, I picked up on filling the void I had always felt,” he says.
Rane ran away from his home at the age of 17 and has been fending for himself since, thus not getting the opportunity before to focus on his education. Ask him if he was nervous before the exams as he gets before any of his film’s release and he quips, “Nervousness mein maine bahut zyada padhai kar li thi.” A post shared by Harshvardhan Rane (@harshvardhanrane) It wasn’t easy to manage time for his studying in between his acting commitments, but the 40-year-old made it possible.
“I started walking to my gym which would take 45 minutes, and I’d listen to audio lectures in that time. During exercising, on my way home, in car transit, at airport lounge, everywhere I would listen to lectures. And I have done the most amount of study in flights.
I have started to love traffic also because it gives me time to study. I have done my assignments at a government office when their servers went down,” he shares. But didn’t hi.