Overview
- Suryavanshi's interview with host Siddharth Kannan, published Tuesday, describes a Karnataka village split by caste and a temple his family still cannot enter.
- He recalls being about 12 when a hotel made him and his father wash their own plates after paying for a meal in the village.
- He says poverty marked his childhood, with a mother working as domestic help and a mason father who sometimes came home drunk and abused the family.
- Before acting, he worked as a liftman, office boy and security guard on 12-hour shifts, then entered sets as a junior artist where a senior once snatched his plate and told him to eat elsewhere.
- He reports repeated casting rejections due to his dark complexion, including being dropped after selection, even as small roles in Panchayat and films like Jolly LLB 3 have raised attention to his story across major outlets.