Lessons Sumeet has learnt from success

Actor Sumeet Vyas is satisfied with how his film career is shaping up. After delivering a commercial hit, Veere Di Wedding, with Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonam K Ahuja earlier this year, things changed for him.

“I didn’t know how it feels to have a successful film, which earns so many crores. You can’t say anything before the first day, but only when you see the numbers (ranging from) 70 to 100 crores... It feels good. Overall, the response has been very good for me. People have been very kind towards me,” he says.

Success has taught Sumeet some very important lessons. He doesn’t want to misuse the popularity which has come his way. “Every time something you do exceeds [expectations], it results in generating more opportunities. As an actor, you need to take a call, and not go on a rampage, signing whatever comes your way. You want to take a step back and see where you want to go from here. I didn’t want to create a similar character again,” he says.

This is surprising as actors tend to capitalise on their last successful film. Why did he deliberately choose to wait?

“A lot of similar stuff tends to come your way. Everybody wants you to be the next goofy guy, the supportive modern husband. That’s the character a lot of people are writing these days. I didn’t want to fit into a category again,” explains the actor, who has been seen in web series such as Tripling and Permanent Roommates.

His film, High Jack, a stoner comedy, which released around the same time as Veere Di Wedding, sank at the box office. Talking about it, the actor says, “It does really [affect you]. It was a funny, quirky script, but a lot of factors came into play when the film released. The idea behind doing that film was that it was different from what I had done before. But the release date shifted, and by the time it got approved, we were competing against Deadpool 2 (a Hollywood superhero film). They had some 15,000 screens, whereas we had only 200. But I am happy I experimented.”

The actor says that being a part of the commercial hit, Veere Di Wedding, was good for his career