He said, “When you work on a television serial, film, or advertisement, you rarely get to experience the audience’s reaction while you are performing. You may see that reaction later, perhaps when your film releases in a theatre and you sit among the audience. But live performance is completely different.”
“Whether it is theatre, stand-up comedy, storytelling, or anchoring, you receive the audience’s response in that very moment, their laughter, applause, silence, emotions and energy,” he added.
That instant connection, he explained, is what keeps him coming back to the stage again and again. He said, “And no matter how much an artist achieves, there is something magical about the reaction of a live audience.”
“For an artist, that immediate connection is like an elixir of life, it gives you energy, keeps your art alive, and makes you want to perform again and again. Because when an audience responds to you in the moment, an artist doesn’t just perform, he comes alive,” he added.
Moving to Mumbai, he said, taught him a lesson that no amount of talent back home could substitute for. He said, “If I were to put it in a slightly lighter and more humorous way, as Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj often says, ‘Karat ki vidya hai, karne se hoga,’ you learn by doing. After coming to Mumbai, I quickly realised one thing: nothing comes without hard work, struggle and a few knocks along the way.”
He drew a clear line between how things worked in Kolkata and what the city of dreams demanded of him. He said, “Back in Kolkata, some things came relatively easily, or at least with less effort. But Mumbai taught me that if your dreams are big, your efforts have to be equally big.”
“Mumbai made me understand that dreams don’t come true by simply dreaming about them, you have to chase them, work for them, and sometimes fight for them,” Dinesh ended.
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