His face lights up while narrating anecdotes of his early days in Mumbai. And the mention of Sujal, the character from Kahiin To Hoga, makes him smile even today. "I am still trying to crack the Sujal code. What was it about the character that makes people still refer to me with that name?" he ponders. But his latest moniker is Sach Ka Saamna. "People in Ooty kept calling me that," he says of his reality show which created a stir across the nation. "I was happy to be discussed in Parliament," he laughs.
His anecdotes are not over without making a mention of his namesake in the industry, filmmaker Rajeev Khandelwal. "He is a veteran filmmaker and he made my life miserable in Delhi when I was making documentaries. Most journalists would come to me for an interview and then be disappointed." But Khandelwal seems to have taken his revenge now. "He now counsels teenage girls who call him to profess their love for me," he states and he tells us that all these instances will be great fodder for his autobiography which he will pen down soon. "Apart from this, I would also like to direct a film some day. After all, you have just one life. You need to make the most of it."