Sometimes a jovial father and sometimes a concerned friend, Nitesh Pandey showcased enormous shades of an actor on silver screen. Being a veteran, Nitesh left no stone unturned in entertaining his fans. Now, Nitesh would be seen playing a character of a cool and happy-go-lucky bole toh bindaas father in Disney channel’s ongoing series ‘Palak Pe Jhalak’.
In an exclusive rendezvous with The Pioneer, Nitesh not talked about his journey as an actor but also expressed his dream of coming to Bhopal as a mentor to theatre aspirants.
“I know Bhopal has a sturdy platform for the theatre artists and I wouldn’t mind mentoring the aspiring young theatre artists of the city,” says Nitesh excitedly. Elaborating further, he said, “Theatre is a must for those who want to enter entertainment industry and so I would love to visit Bhopal for this purpose, although I have never performed in Bhopal,” he added.
On asking about the not performing in Bhopal, he said, “Earlier, I received some offers for shooting in Bhopal but the due to some reasons it could not happen.”
Nitesh began theatres in 1990 and remained active till 2001 and recently he is doing television. Nitesh said, “If you begin doing television there is no time to do theatres. So, I hardly get time to do theatre.”
Talking more about it, Nitesh said that theatres are the first step towards success in entertainment industry. He believes that the vogue of theatres in small towns makes the actors form these cities the enchanters.
“In small towns people do theatres and then come to Mumbai and this is the reason they create magic on screen.” He further added saying, “Theatre is a must in any actor’s life. One gets an eternal satisfaction after doing theatres and so one should do it with firmness.”
Nitesh talking about his journey in television industry says that theatre, and television is different mediums though ‘acting is acting.’ Nitesh is seen in movies like Om Shanti Om, Micky Virus, Khosla Ka Ghosla, in serials like Astitva, Pyar Ka Dard Hai and many more.
About doing fewer movies, Nitesh says, “I feel it has become a trend that television actors are not much preferred in movies and so maybe I am seen less in movies”. After doing so many characters now Nitesh dreams of doing a negative role. He says, “Though I have many dream roles but I want to do ek accha wala negative role on screen.”
Talking about his recent project Palak Pe Jhalak, he says, “It is a story of a happy family where I play the father who runs a restaurant of Chhole Bhature.
It is again a very interesting character and I am enjoying it very much.”Nitesh signed off saying,
“All I want to tell Bhopalites that I am very much eager to mentor theatre aspirants here so invite me to do so.”