He’s 19 years old and about to make his dream debut in Ang Lee’s ambitious 3D film Life of Pi. However, the half-Marathi half-Malayali Delhi boy who is also a student of philosophy at St Stephen’s is not sure whether he’d like to continue as an actor in the future.u00a0

Apparently, while working for nearly a year on the film, Suraj got a reality check. He adds, “Everything was new. Forget filmmaking, I’d never even faced a camera before this movie happened. I realised how a story is not just a director’s baby or an actor’s monopoly. It’s a collaborative process of about 2,000 people. No wonder I ended up working hard for the first time in my life!”