“Actually, I came to Mumbai from Jamshedpur in 1991 to become an actor....” — Neeraj Kabi Quote

Actually, I came to Mumbai from Jamshedpur in 1991 to become an actor. I began searching for work and I was all alone and absolutely empty-handed, no craft and nobody that I knew.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same 'hero' or 'villain' kind.

Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

You've got to wake up and perfect your craft, every day, and at the end of the day, you know, you get the star power, magazines, photos shoots, but you've got to say humble, you've got to stay grounded.

I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn't know any of it.