Vikram Singh Chauhan: I Was an Aniket in School

Vikram Singh Chauhan has spent more than a decade building a career across Bollywood and television, moving between romance and thrillers. But his latest interview moment is less about a role than about his own past. In Filmfare’s Do You Dare, he chose to sit with a question many celebrities would sidestep.

Choosing to answer

The Do You Dare format offers a guest an ultimatum: hear a pointed question and answer it, or drop it forever. Vikram chose to hear it. The question was personal: his Pooja Meri Jaan character, Aniket, lets heartbreak consume him and push him toward an extreme decision. How does the real Vikram deal with romantic rejection? Does his ego crack quietly, or has he ever become the sleepless, desperate type?

School, heartbreak and “an Aniket”

He confessed that, in school, he was “in fact, an Aniket.” The realisation took time: he later wondered what he had been doing. After the film, he said, friends told him that many of them had been the same way in school. They only understood later how their conditioning had worked. Women friends told him they had dealt with men like that; male friends admitted they had been an Aniket too, before realising they were wrong.

Vikram was careful to separate himself from the full arc of the character. “Not to the extreme of what Aniket was, but somewhere I was like him,” he said.

An industry built on rejection

On handling rejection now, Vikram described a strange reversal. In a career full of rejection, hearing no begins to feel easier than hearing yes. Acceptance can feel almost suspicious: he described doubting the news and asking if it had really happened. Rejection, by contrast, arrives as something he expected.

Why it matters for the film

Pooja Meri Jaan turns on Aniket’s inability to take no for an answer. Vikram’s honesty gives fans a useful separation:

• Aniket lets heartbreak lead him to an extreme choice.
• Vikram says he never went that far, but saw a school-age version of it.
• Years of rejection have made acceptance feel stranger than rejection.

A companion review of the film carries the blunt title “No Means No,” framing Aniket’s pursuit as a warning rather than a romance. Knowing Vikram relates to the starting point makes that warning land differently.

Source: Filmfare