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Matters of the heart...

Karan Sharma, son of actor, producer, director Romesh Sharma makes his debut with `Dil Jo Bhi Kahey'

Remember Romesh Sharma? The actor you saw in films like Parinay, Aalingan and Chhota Baap, etc. He was seen in Hum too. He could not make it in films. So he produced Hum and Aitbaar but to little success.

This time with his third production Dil Jo Bhi Kahey that he has also directed and scripted, he has tried his luck with his son, a six-feet-four inch Karan Sharma and roped in the Big B, Revathy and a foreign actress Annabelle for the cast.

The 23-year-old Karan with soft looks, enviable height and gym-toned physique who has studied in Mumbai, Mauritius and England (he is a management guy from England) sings praises of Mani Ratnam's films. But to begin his career in the celluloid world he didn't mind going in for a family production. Says he with a voice that sounds better than many of his contemporaries, "Even when I was studying management, I knew I would go for acting as a profession. I was academically an achiever too.

The only time I bunked class was to watch Mani Ratnam's films. I love the intensity they have. When my dad was making this film, he asked me, `would you like to work in it?' He didn't force me. But as I knew I was well prepared to act on the big screen, I agreed," says Karan.

Well prepared

By `well prepared', he means the acting classes he attended in almost all known schools of acting in Mumbai, viz, Roshan Taneja, Namit Kapoor and Satyadev Dubey.

Karan plays Jay Sinha in the film, the dutiful son of Amitabh Bachchan and Revathy. "The film gives me lots of shades to play in the sense that initially I am a well protected, well-brought up boy who doesn't misbehave with his parents.

But when he goes to study abroad, his horizon widens. He falls in love with an English girl and wants to marry her. And it is here where his conflict with his parents begins who make him understand that their `children will be a confused lot if I marry a Christian girl'.

Whether I take them to temple or a church will be what I will have to face. I do argue with parents but within my limits. The film has lots to teach today's generation that way," adds the debutant actor.

RANA SIDDIQUI

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