Vikrant Massey: “I did go through quite a bit of up and downs while filming Love Hostel”

Vikrant Massey, who was as of late seen in the Zee5 movie Love Hostel inverse Sanya Malhotra, has uncovered that the two of them had to undergo therapy while they were shooting for the film The romantic thriller movie helmed by Shanker Raman featured Vikrant and Sanya Malhotra as a newly-married interfaith couple Ahmed and Jyoti. The movie also featured Bobby Deol, who an assassin hired by Jyoti’s grandmother to kill the couple.

Vikrant told indianexpress.com, “I did go through quite a bit of up and downs while filming Love Hostel. I was continuously taking therapy. This film had a certain degree of emotional impact on me. Physically, yes, it gets tiring, but emotionally both Sanya and I had to go through therapy during Love Hostel. There were days when I broke down. Besides therapy, I did have my share of sleepless nights as I am not an actor who can switch on and switch off a character. For you to think like someone you are not, it does catch up with you. You start thinking like your character. You start feeling like your character. It is that journey that becomes challenging.”

The actor also said that it was the subject of the movie that pushed him towards it, as he believed it had the power to be the audience’s voice. He explained, “Let’s be truthful, there are many Ahmed and Jyoti out there. We all know what has happened with inter-faith marriages. We have seen people being ostracized for following their free will and faith in the last few years. So, the idea was to communicate that through the film. This is not the country I recognise my country as. This is not the society I was raised in. This is not the world that I was made to believe in. When you see things like that happening around you, you really want to go out and be the audience’s voice.”