Last
month,
Mahesh
Manjrekar's
directorial
Antim:
The
Final
Truth
was
released
in
theatres,
and
audience
got
to
witness
new
side
of
actor
Aayush
Sharma.
It's
known
to
all
that
he
failed
to
impress
audience,
as
well
as
critics,
with
his
work
in
his
debut
movie
Loveyatri.
However,
he
put
a
lot
of
effort
in
his
second
outing,
wherein
he
played
a
grey
character.
In
his
recent
tete-a-tete
with
Times
Of
India,
Aayush
spoke
about
facing
failure
and
said,
"My
first
outing
wasn't
a
success
at
the
box
office,
and
my
calibre
as
an
actor
was
questioned.
I
wasn't
defensive
about
the
criticism
and
I
worked
on
my
shortcomings.
Today,
there
is
an
influx
of
great
content
and
artistes.
I
realised
that
if
I
was
going
to
pitch
myself
as
a
star
and
do
the
same
thing
again,
I
would
just
fizzle
out."
He
further
added
that
he
wanted
to
project
himself
as
an
actor
first
and
leave
the
rest
to
the
audience,
because
he
believes
that
audience's
acceptance
is
the
only
way
for
him
to
attain
stardom.
He
further
added
that
he
can
do
as
many
films
as
he
wishes
to,
but
till
the
time
the
audience
accepts
him
as
an
actor,
there
is
no
way
he
can
become
a
star.
While
speaking
about
dealing
failure,
Aayush
also
said
that
it
teaches
actors
a
lot
more
than
success
does.
The
31-year-old
actor
asserted
that
success
tends
to
make
one
complacent,
but
failure
pushes
one
to
work
harder.
"If
you
ask
me
today,
I
am
grateful
that
my
first
outing
wasn't
a
success
at
the
box
office.
Had
it
been,
I
probably
would
have
stayed
in
the
same
zone
and
become
repetitive.
That
experience
taught
me
that
for
every
film
I
need
to
put
in
the
same
effort
I
put
in
for
Antim.
It
also
prepared
me
to
accept
that
if
I
fail
once,
it's
not
the
end
of
the
road,"
shared
Sharma.