TOI: Shehban Azmi - Passionate about cinema

I can live,eat,sleep movies

SPARSH SHARMA


Sehban Azim of the TV soap Dil Mill Gaye fame is a bachelor in information technology,who ended up in the tinsel town due to his passion for cinema.Azim played one of the male leads,Dr Yuvraj,in the soap that was on air on a leading TV channel.I can live,eat,sleep movies.Even as a kid,I had decided that whatever I will do in life will surely be connected to movies and Bollywood.Back then,I didnt have a vision that Ill end up as an actor but cinema was what inspired me, reminisces the hardcore movie buff.Having done several ads in the print space and on TV,he will be making his silver-screen debut later this year in a thriller,64 Panne,as the main lead.I am really excited about this project.Besides,there is a lot more coming,apart from the acting bit, he says.Azim shares an interesting incident while shooting for the movie.I was shooting in Mussoorie and had to cross the Burma Bridge without any harness.The bridge is at a height of 50 meters over a waterfall and it was quite scary as a thought.As it was too cold,the wood was wet and slippery but again it was too adventurous and exciting.That feeling will always be with me. His short film for FTII titled,Stations,directed by Emmanuel Quindo Paolo won National Award 2009 for Best Short fiction,Best Editing,Best Scientific Film and won the Best Short film Award in the Kerala International Short film Festival.Azims favourite actors are Daniel Day Lewis and Meryl Streep.Besides watching movies,his hobbies include playing video games and travelling.I take my life as it comes.All I can say is I am always eager to do something interesting and right now acting interests me the most.His favourite holiday destination is Spain but he likes Navi Mumbai and its people a lot more.Navi Mumbai has a lot of greenery,wide roads and lesser traffic compared to Mumbai.While going to Pune,I usually go via Palm Beach Road as its my favourite, adds Sehban.