‘There is a deep rot in the system’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘There is a deep rot in the system’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Pune |Published: May 11, 2019 12:57:16 pm

‘There is a deep rot in the system’

Actor Pankaj Jha on his latest film, Setters, and the malaise of performance pressure in education.

Actor Pankaj says he likes challenging roles and have been a part of issue-based films such as Gulal, Black Friday, Chameli and Anwar.

When he is not acting on stage or screen, Pankaj Jha paints, sings, writes poems and takes photographs. “Art has taught me to live in the moment. Unlike a lot of people, I have no plans for the future. Look at children today; even they are forced to live for the future rather than the present,” says Jha, whose film Setters, which released on May 3, shows him as part of a gang that leaks examination papers in Varanasi. “Children are under great pressure to perform and many take a recourse to illegal means. A lot of people say that they wanted to become an actor or singer but were forced towards engineering or medicine,” says Jha. Excerpts from an interview: