Actor and musician Ayushmann Khurrana reflected on his time as a radio jockey ahead of World Radio Day. Talking about the time he kickstarted his career as a radio jockey, Ayushmann said, “Here I was at my first job and they had given me the breakfast show and they had hugely promoted that show. I was on the hoardings in Delhi. So, that was really new for that time. We did a lot of disruptive content in 2006 when radio was going through the second phase and we started as a retro station! At 22, I don’t think there was anyone else, in my age group, who was well versed with retro Bollywood apart from me.”
The 37-year-old feels it is “very important” for everyone to cherish the starting point of one’s career. Ayushmann said, “That’s the formative years of someone’s career. It can either make you or break you and I was fortunate to be surrounded by creative people who were looking to disrupt.”
He added, “I was always inclined to pursue a profession in entertainment and performance arts and my stint as a radio jockey really helped me get confident about myself. The success I saw with radio taught me that I could back myself and explore to become an entertainer. It is such a coincidence that I hosted some really off-centre shows. Looking back I feel I was always drawn to out-of-the-ordinary concepts and that’s pretty much become my signature today as I tend to pick subjects that are fresh and unique,” he ends.
