Amit tandon

Amit Tandon was ranked among top ten in Indian Idol is doing well for himself. He is playing "Prithvi" in Kaisa Yeh Pyar Hai on Sony and was also a VJ. He came to Bombay from New York to become an actor. Here he opens his heart expressing his thoughts and ideas.

I am dreamer who believes in living every day to its fullest.

On God

I believe that there is only one form of God and how people view that form is different. For some it is Ram, for others its Allah and for the rest its Jesus. There is only force that controls everything in your life and that force is GOD. I believe in GOD and for me there is only one God.

On Religion

Religion is more about connecting with your soul and can be practiced any where - it can be done in your living room, in the gurudwara, while you are walking wherever....Connecting with god equivalent to connecting yourself. I visit the Gurudwara, church, the mosque and the temples whenever I find the time. Religion to me is all about kismet and karma - how you live life.

On Life and Death

In today's world, we run after the materialistic things in life and at the end of it all some 50-60 years later we realize that we never lived at all. I though believe that life and death are all part of a bigger plan. Everything in this world has a beginning and an end. I think life for a human being begins not when the person is born but it begins the moment the moment it is conceived in the mothers womb. Life in general is to be enjoyed. It is a gift, one should appreciate it. Death is the ultimate truth of life. It is reality one has to accept it.

On Success and Failure

Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Both success and failure are equivalent extreme. One doesn't appreciate what one has until one doesn't experience struggle. Struggle makes one realize the importance of success. Those who go through both success and failure are mellow and human. Those who don't see failure have airs about themselves. One understands and values success after going through the highs and lows of life. Success entails a bigger picture, it is not about how many fans you have, not about how much money you earned, its more about how many smiles you bought to a persons life and how many people you inspired....Success can be best summarized by the following words a well known person once said "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"

On Marriage

Marriage to me is something that I certainly look forward to. I am an eternal romantic at heart and have this desire to come home into the arms of that special some one. There is no better feeling than the feeling that there is some one back home whos waiting for you. Aaj kal divorce bahut popular hai but people should realize that compromise and commitment is the key to make any relationship work. I believe that one shouldn't marry a person one can live with but rather one should marry a person one can't live without. I know I will want to marry a person when I will want to grow old with her.

On Pain & Jealousy

Both jealousy and pain are very natural emotions. I think Jealousy is that form of emotion which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Pain is reality one has to deal with to appreciate the beauty of life. . I think emotional pain is the hardest as its something one is not used to.

On Anger

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at some one than to tell them that you are hurt. However anger is a self destructive emotion that needs to be controlled as anger can get the best of us only for us to repent later....Main garm jaldi ho jaata hoon par phir thanda bhi jaldi ho jata hoon....I think with time I have learnt to control my anger in the right direction.

On Meditation & Spirituality

The mind is our instrument. We should learn to be its master and not its slave. When Pooja and stuff becomes a part of soul, when we do anything out of fear or habit we tend to lose the essence of it.

Meditation and spirituality is all about connecting yourself to a greater force in the world through a chord. For me, it is when I shut the world to be closer to God and myself.... I tend to keep a few moments in a day to my self wherein I become closer to myself and be in tune with God. That's Meditation for me ..thats spirituality for me....all of us are spiritual in some way or the other..the extent to which we are spiritual differs.