Baazaar Actor Rohan Mehra: I Don't Feel The Pressure Being Compared To My Father Vinod Mehra
Rohan Mehra stayed away from Bollywood for most part of his life and the debutante says it is one of the reasons he discovered his father, actor Vinod Mehra quite late.
Rohan
Mehra
stayed
away
from
Bollywood
for
most
part
of
his
life
and
the
debutante
says
it
is
one
of
the
reasons
he
discovered
his
father,
actor
Vinod
Mehra
quite
late.
Rohan,
who
makes
his
Hindi
film
debut
with
Baazaar,
says
he
does
not
feel
pressured
by
the
comparisons
drawn
between
him
and
his
father,
who
passed
away
before
his
birth
in
1990.
"Comparisons
will
be
made.
I
don't
feel
the
pressure.
It
doesn't
annoy
me.
All
the
more,
I'm
flattered.
This
is
all
very
surreal
to
me.
I'm
discovering
this
man
really
late
in
my
life.
"I
started
discovering
him
when
I
was
21.
I
never
knew
him.
My
mother
was
four
months
pregnant
with
me
when
he
passed
away," the
actor
told
PTI
in
an
interview
here.
He
grew
up
in
Kenya's
Mombasa
with
his
mother,
Kiran,
sister
Soniya
and
grandparents.
"For
the
first
21
years
of
my
life,
I
was
away
from
Bollywood
and
Bombay.
I
don't
think
anyone
in
Mombasa
personally
could
say
they
knew
Vinod
Mehra.
Had
I
lived
in
Bombay,
there
would
have
been
that
pressure,"
he
says.
Rohan
says
he
strives
to
be
like
his
father,
Vinod
Mehra
who
has
films
such
as
Anuraag,
Nagin,
Jaani
Dushman
and
Ghar,
among
others
to
his
credit.
"He
was
such
a
charismatic,
handsome
and
great
actor.
Those
are
the
qualities
I
look
to
be.
I
want
to
be
more
like
him.
I
appreciate
that
he
has
diehard
fans.
I
will
give
them
a
little
reminder,"
he
says.
The
actor
says
he
read
some
tweets
where
people
said
he
does
not
resemble
his
father
who
was
"well-built"
and
clarifies
he
lost
weight
for
his
role
as
stock
market
greenhorn,
Rizwan
Ahmed.
"It
would
be
silly
to
see
someone
with
a
huge
chest
walk
into
the
stock
market
to
get
a
job
from
Shakun
Kothari
(played
by
Saif
Ali
Khan),"
he
adds.
Rohan,
27,
says
he
is
glad
that
unlike
other
star
kids,
he
had
to
fight
for
people's
interest.
"I
wanted
to
have
some
leverage
before
I
could
speak
to
people
and
they
could
speak
about
you.
You
need
that.
You
have
to
have
something
to
show
for
what
you're
doing.
I
think
that's
the
way
it
should
be."
The
film,
directed
by
Gauravv
Chawla,
was
earlier
aiming
for
a
December
2017
release.
The
actor
says
the
delay
cast
a
shadow
of
doubt
on
his
Bollywood
entry
but
patience
carried
him
through.
"There
were
times
I
wondered
'What's
going
on?
When
is
the
film
going
to
release?' I
have
already
waited
for
so
long.
"With
the
little
bit
struggle
that
I
did
in
landing
a
job
in
Bollywood,
I
think
you
develop
some
more
patience.
You
start
trusting
the
process
more.
Also
I
had
a
great
mentor
in
producer
Nikkhil
Advani.
I
knew
if
he
wasn't
worrying,
I
shouldn't."