MUMBAI: Geet - Hui Sabse Parayi, starring Gurmeet Chaudhary and Drashti Dhami, is set to get re-telecast on TV. Gurmeet Chaudhary, who played Maan in the show, spoke to a media portal about his experience. Read on for excerpts.

What importance does your role in Geet hold in your career?

I have come from TV to Films and doing good here. People keep asking me how did it happened and I always tell them, 'Ye Geet ki wajah se hua hai'. The character which I played in that show of Maan Singh Khurana had a lot of heroism. Every quality of stars which touches the audience's heart, Maan had all the elements. From being an angry young man to a romantic hero.  

Geet has always been extremely close to my heart. Actors generally keep saying maine ye show kiya maine vo show kiya and main proudly bolta hoon maine Geet kiya. 

How did Geet come to you?

After Ramayan, Debina and I were doing a show, called Pati Patni Aur Woh, which was seen by a lot of people, including some makers and among them was Gul Khan (Producer). She called me for the audition of Geet and wanted me to play the character of Maan Singh Khurana.

So, the process seemed simple...

No, you won't believe but I almost auditioned 10-12 times for it and everytime the channel was rejecting me and asking for more options. But Gul had made up her mind that it will be only me who will play the lead and no one else. And at one point of time, I also thought that kya mazak chal raha hai, I can easily pull off the character, then why are they looking for more options. Har do din mein audition ke liye bulate phir bolte nahi hua yaar. Phir Gul bulati please come will audition one more time and it was going again and again. 

Then?

Then the channel decided to do a proper mock shoot with Drashti and me. And in that shoot, I had some bare body shots as the show was being made for a channel which was youth centric. They wanted someone with some good abs and all. And that time also, I was into fitness and I had that. Also, the chemistry and dialogue between me and her came out so well that I became confident that I will only be Maan. And that's how finally I got the role.

You personally got involved to finalise Maan's look. What made you do that?

After doing Ram, it was my challenge to look different. So, for Geet the first thing which I got done was chopping my hair short. I kept a beard which became quite a trend when the show went on-air. All the daily soap actors, at that time, used to look same and wear similar outfits. So, I told Gul that Maan's styling has to be different. And she gave me a lot of options. Not just the look, but I also worked on my body language- right from walk to everything. Very few actors were getting to do action scenes in their respective shows, so I had pushed makers to include action scenes too. Credits: SpotboyE