Handsome hunk Ankit Gupta, who is currently loved by fans as Fateh from Udaariyaan has come a long way in the industry. The actor started his journey as a model and began working at a call centre in Noida to meet his ends. However, destiny soon took a turn when he won a contract with a popular modelling agency and got a free portfolio from famous photographer Subi Samuel. Ankit didn't look back and has been working hard to reach where he is today. Ankit joined ETimes TV for an exclusive segment Tellyblazer, where he spoke about his struggling phase, rejections and more. He also opened up how not many know that he started with a cameo role in Balika Vadhu and before Udaariyaan happened to him he was signed for five TV shows, 1 film and 1 web series but none of them took off.
Did you ever imagine Udaariyaan to be such a big hit and how does it feel to be a part of such a successful show?
None of us had ever imagined that our show would become such a big hit and will be loved by fans. When I was offered the show and was told that the shooting will happen in Chandigarh, we were not very confident. I wasn’t even sure that the show would take off. When I shifted to Chandigarh for the show no one knew about the show, only Param Singh he knew that I was going to shoot a show here. Even my family didn’t know. I came here and thought the show would run for 2/3 months and had left everything on God. The show started at 0.9 TRP and then it dropped a little and came to 0.6. There were even rumours that our show had got notice that if we don’t generate good numbers it will be pulled off-air. From there we started to take off. We first did 1.9 and we kept doing better. That time we would pray that we should at least manage to do 1.5,1.6 so that we would sail through it. But then came a time when we touched 3.1 and it was just amazing.
