Gulshan dives into depression?

Gulshan Devaiah has always earned the repute of being an aced actor with a charm on screen.

Last seen in the role of Mandar in Hunterrr, he is now playing the role of an investigative journalist in Cabaret opposite Richa Chadda. As a requirement for his role, Gulshan was to play a person who is a loner and is into depression.

For the role preparation, Gulshan who is otherwise a social drinker took to alcohol to immerse deeper into his role. Not just that he would listen to slow music like Ghazals to go deeper into the emotion of his character. Sometime before the shot and while the shoot Gulshan isolated himself from people, to stay focused in the mind frame of his character and allow himself the chase to be disconnected from the world.

When contacted, Gulshan said, "I play a depressed, alcoholic, investigative journalist in cabaret and so I spent an entire evening getting totally wasted by bar hopping with Kaustav, the director of cabaret. He shared with me, stories from his life that were relevant to the character (Gaurav Grewal) I was playing. He wrote the part based upon his own life, so it's kind of autobiographical. From time to time I would hear ghazals by Jagjit Singh, which were very beautiful but depressing. It certainly helped me with my preparation for cabaret."