Today, when Arjun looks back at that time, he is immensely proud of having made it in the industry by himself. In a recent interaction, the Gunday actor recalled how after auditioning rigorously, he landed his first role.“Aditya Chopra saw my photos first and said yeh toh actor nahi ban sakta, isko hum supporting… (he can’t be an actor, we can maybe cast him as supporting…) he can’t be the main lead. He was not very impressed with my images,” he said.

Arjun then added that even after growing up in the industry, he had never met Aditya or the late Yash Chopra in person. “I had met a lot of people because I have grown up in the industry, I will not lie, I had never met Adi sir,” he quoted. The actor further recounted that later Aditya Chopra got impressed by his screen presence and that’s when he decided to launch Arjun. “He said ‘acha isme kuch colour hai’. He can do other stuff also, he is not one-dimensional and that’s how I got my first film,” Arjun said.