Agastya Nanda made a shocking confession during a chat with sister Navya Naveli Nanda, mother Shweta Bachchan and grandmother Jaya Bachchan. The actor revealed he was going through a ‘bad phase’ when he began work on The Archies. Directed by Zoya Akhtar, The Archies marked Agastya’s debut film. He played the role of Archie. Speaking on Navya’s podcast, What The Hell Navya, Agastya revealed he battles anxiety and he got really anxious about his debut. He added that he turned to religion to help battle with it.
“I was a really anxious person, and I say was, because I went through a really bad phase of it. I used to feel a lot of anxiety,” Agastya said before adding, “When you’re living in a world where there’s so much going on, you do one thing that grounds you. And I think our generation are very anxious people. Because we’re so used to getting things in an instant. We’ve lost patience and we’ve lost faith. We’ve lost faith that things will work out, or things will be okay, because we’re so used to things being certain now.”
Agastya then revealed how spirituality came to his help. “I know you guys laugh at me, but I became very religious and spiritual. And it came naturally. It just gives you something to believe in that’s beyond your control,” he said.
“When I started acting, doing my first film, I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do, if I’m going to do well, if people are going to like me, if they’ll think I’m bad’. There are so many things. I did my best, and I was like, ‘God, I leave it up to you’. I have to keep faith in something beyond me. Whoever you believe in, whether it’s God, or energy. If you just pass on that burden, it relieves you,” he confessed.
The Archies was released in December on Netflix. The film also starred star kids Suhana Khan and Khushi Kapoor. The film was not well-received. Agastya will now be seen in Ikkis, directed by Sriram Raghavan.
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