As an 11-year-old school-going boy in Surat, Dixon Shah had decided that Mumbai — the city of opportunities — would be his destination. It would take him another 26 years to realise this dream. For him, as he recalls, the journey was nothing short of, “entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.”

It took over a week before Shah could finally give us time. “It’s my schedule,” he chuckles and reasons over the phone, giving off the first hint of truly conforming to a Mumbaikar’s hustle-filled life. The voice actor has another recording to catch within an hour, and so we quickly jump on to the crux of the conversation. “As a child, I was fascinated by the entertainment industry. I always thought acting was my calling. And if there was one place that had the right opportunities for me, I knew at a very young age that it would be Mumbai,” he tells us.