Paid work did not end Rohan Khurana’s need to train. In his Famous TV Confessions conversation, the actor recalls a period of frequent advertising jobs when he was earning well but felt his performances had become repetitive. The short, immediate demands of advertisements had begun to shape how he acted.
He stresses the importance of continuing to learn. Khurana describes taking courses and workshops rather than treating training as a stage to finish before a career begins. For him, returning to the craft is part of sustaining that career.
Learning beyond the classroom
The conversation moves between formal training and what he learned by turning up for auditions. Khurana recalls beginning with theatre and auditioning for advertising work after college. He describes waiting in queues around Mumbai’s Aram Nagar, going from office to office and asking whether he suited a part.
He places those memories roughly a decade earlier. They are a picture of his own beginnings, rather than instructions for how casting works today. He also acknowledges that being from Mumbai made parts of the experience easier for him.
Those early auditions taught him about navigating life as well as performing. Workshops offered another way to examine his habits. He speaks about watching his own acting critically and recognising when it feels stale, even during a period when work is coming in.
Making use of the self-test
Khurana describes a different frustration with self-recorded auditions: an actor can set up the camera, perform and send a test without knowing who eventually sees it. The effort is visible to the performer; the next stage of the process often is not.
Yet he remains enthusiastic about auditioning. He describes it as a chance to practise and to look back at his performance, identifying choices that could have been better. That gives an audition value beyond whether it immediately leads to a role.
Later in the conversation, he brings the discussion back to preparation. He stresses discipline, acting exercises and being ready when an opportunity appears. His emphasis is on the work an actor can continue doing between jobs, while casting decisions remain outside their control.
Khurana’s account gives aspiring performers a concrete question to consider: how are they developing their craft when they are not on a set? For him, training, auditions and paid work remain connected. Each can reveal something that needs attention before the next performance.
Source: Famous TV’s original Confessions interview.