Before rising up to fame in the film industry with his breakout performances in Kill (2024) and The Ba***ds of Bollywood, Lakshya worked in television, headlining the historical show, Porus which ran for over a year. The actor then auditioned for several months before bagging a 3 film deal from Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. However, two of those films got shelved just before they were supposed to go on floors, leaving things uncertain for the actor.
Lakshya spoke of this period during a conversation with Raj Shamani on his podcast. Lakshya said, “I just told myself it’s not your fault. Your job is to wake up in the morning, do voice training, read your scenes, go the gym, watch movies, and keep doing what you have been. Don’t change your routine. I was blank. I was numb to it. I just let it happen. Luckily, I never had self-doubt. I genuinely felt nothing was set up for me. I had no plans of becoming an actor. I just happened to become one.”
He added, “The only thing I knew was hard work. So why should I stop doing that? That’s what’s made me. Who do I blame? God? or Karan Johar? I can’t blame anyone na. The film got shelved, and that’s it. For some reason, I had the self-belief that it was happening for a reason. Tables would turn one day. There wasn’t a single day throughout Covid when I didn’t work hard.”
The actor also revealed that he received an offer for another TV show after Porus. “After Porus ended, I got another TV show where they offered me Rs 20,000-25,000 per day. My father said, ‘That’s a lot of money. I’ve never seen that kind of money in my whole life. Just grab it.’ But there was a stubbornness within me. Why could I not become a movie star? What do I lack? This one’s doing it, that one’s doing it, so why could I not?”
He felt that he had reached a point of saturation while acting for TV. “I’d done everything in that show. I’d done the whole range of an actor’s emotions. The quality in TV was also decreasing. Porus also got derailed from its track. The medium is like that. A good film takes over two years to write. But you have to come up with something in television every day. That’s why the shows become cringe after a point,” he said.
The actor will be seen next in Chand Mera Dil, a romantic-drama which also stars Ananya Panday. It is helmed by Meenakshi Sundareshwar (2021) and Aap Jaisa Koi director, Vivek Soni.