Agastya Nanda On Javed Akhtar Believing He's the Next Superstar: 'I Want To Go With The Flow'

Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson, Agastya Nanda, recently made his film debut with Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies. The film has garnered a good response from the audience. While the young star kid is yet to fully embark on his film career, he recently shared his thoughts after Javed Akhtar predicted that he will be the next superstar of the Industry.

Speaking with the Film Companion, Agastya expressed,”I don’t want to be over-smart and decide what I want to do. I want to go with the flow. Let the people I am working with decide what kind of mold they want to put me in. It’s very sweet of Javed sahab to say that. I don’t think I am deserving of that compliment but I think Archie was that vibe , it was that young thing. Let’s see what happens, let’s see what happens ahead but I don’t want to bottle myself down to one thing or may be try everything and fail at all and come back to the same thing but let’s see.”

For the unversed, Javed Akhtar had said in a previous interview with Rediff, “I told Agastya’s mother (Shweta Bachchan Nanda), ‘Your son is going to be a star’. The concept of the hero so far has been of the toxic, macho man. Here is an unpretentious and masoom hero. Audiences have not seen a hero like Agastya since Rishi Kapoor in Bobby. Agastya will appeal to all youngsters, especially girls.”

Over a month after the release of Zoya Akhtar’s directorial, Agastya has also finally opened up about the negativity the young actors faced on social media post The Archies release. Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson was speaking to The Film Companion recently when he admitted that he wasn’t prepared for the negative reactions to The Archies. “Honestly, I didn’t know how to deal with it. When you are not prepped in this area, you don’t know that many people have many opinions. And that’s okay, you must have your opinion but I didn’t know what was going on. Some people hated it, some people liked it, some people were indifferent to it and that’s ok,” Agastya said.

The young star further shared that The Archies was his “first try” and even though it did not work as expected, he is ready to work harder. “On some levels, it didn’t work and that’s ok. It’s my first try and I am going to work hard and get back up, try for the second and if that doesn’t work then try for the third and then the fourth but to get to that realisation took me some time,” he added.

Meanwhile, Agastya has already signed his next movie, Sriram Raghavan’s Ekkis. It is touted to be a biopic of the 1971 war hero, Arun Khetarpal and will also star veteran actor Dharmendra in a key role. Reportedly, Agastya is reading the script these days and will begin shooting for this film soon.