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Don’t Just follow your Dreams, Chase them…!! | Rohit Khandelwal | TEDxUPES


for the last two weeks these guys have
given it their all they have conquered
all before them who is the champion the
winner of mr. World 2016
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so guys are thank you very much firstly
for all those who are speaking over here
I’m totally inspired especially I think
I can connect a lot with Bobby because
you always have to listen to from your
heart and I want to talk to you guys
completely from my heart
whatever happened so mister will was
never planned in my life until two years
back
never ever so this gives me a thought
that life gives gives us an opportunity
I came to Bombay for becoming an actor
and I was doing a channel V show for
almost six months and the seventh one
show God affair and I saw an ad in the
newspaper just like this
the former mr. India is saying would you
want to be the next mr. India 2015
I have never planned it in my life to
participate but when I saw the article
again it had one line saying that this
time they had mr. active sub contest mr.
act a Best Actor and it was already an
actor so something a gush of confidence
and intuition as you guys believe in
something said in me that I think I can
give it a try I always see a situation
criticizing first what is there to lose
Zara says I’ll have probably my swimwear
Trung video viral on the youtube and
everybody watch and laugh it but what
can happen on the other side I can win
the pageant so I just went ahead and I
participated that was mr. India but let
me tell you guys about my life so I come
from a Marwari family very conservative
or prog who eats lot of sweets so I
would say the biggest three Wow see I
told you we connect a lot you’re fit as
well so I think the biggest challenge
was to let go of the food that we eat
for me it was because none of my cousin
or relative we’re into this field so it
took me a lot of time to avoid food and
definitely convince our parents because
of everybody from my family nobody was
into this field so they initially would
not believe so it was a task for me
definitely and so I would like to start
from not missing any point five six
years
down the line my life started changing
drastically and before that I was
working in three different companies
doing three different jobs so after my
graduation in commerce which I scored
85% and just like I’m good in studies –
and 100 100 100 in corporate accounting
after that I knew that I want to go to
Bombay and I want to become an actor but
how would I do that I think my parents
initially were not sure about it and I
want to be I want to see I should be
worthy enough to do a job I worked in
special Airlines as ground staff because
that is the first company which came
which came into my college for
recruitment and as you could see this is
the same place where I click the picture
in 2010 when I was working as ground
staff and then 2017 I was mr. world 2016
so the picture over here sees a lot and
initially few days when I was working as
budget drawn staff first one month I
remember I was just standing in the
check-in counters and telling people to
go to the boarding gate and take the
flight there were a lot of problems that
I faced ever–ever the flight gets
delayed something wrong happens in the
rival belt my case was taken very badly
and things that I had to hear I had to
use in my eyes because I was young I was
19 years old and I was that was my first
job but every situation in life guys I
realized teach you something if I did
not work in these three different
companies experience this this kind of
behavior of people towards me and this
made me really strong working in three
different companies I was working with
almost people who were 3035 so there was
a lot to learn from them what I really
learned from Special Air Lines was main
important thing I’ve learned over there
was to calm down
to embrace embrace change and no matter
what a person tries to tell you I think
it’s all in your mind how you react to
it if you try being upset and you fried
getting annoyed I think you’re giving a
lot of importance to that people
I know that this will be very helpful
for me when I become an actor in Bombay
so every single day and I have no other
option but work because I don’t want to
leave a company in two months so I went
ahead and I work I learned a lot and
SpiceJet and after that I worked there
for a while and then I thought of doing
another job and that would this was not
the right time to go to Bombay I worked
in Dell as technical support assistant
as you saw the picture I was very thin
because I had to literally be on my feet
all the time
in Dell I had a graveyard shift I wasn’t
called with us in Canada customer for
almost 2 to 3 hours one call goes for we
used to repair the computers over the
phone
and I have put on a lot of weight so the
previous picture that you see where I
put down a lot of weight so the I was 85
kgs and then this was before mr. India I
participated and I was around 75 so for
a Marbury guy it was really really
difficult I tell you and I as I told my
my father definitely thinks a lot good
for me and he thought that when I bit a
bomb with me I kept a tiny Auriga
so it not much angrier so I used to go
to the gym I didn’t have enough of funds
I should remember reviewing my slippers
as gym bitches badly you know used to
charge anything I should go by walking
come by walking 2 kilometres up and down
so at my cardio surgeon because the gym
doesn’t have cardio and then I had to
literally cut down on milk I had no
knowledge about it so it took me a lot
of time to lose weight and now you give
me ten days I can shred 5 kgs for you so
there was definitely a lot of struggle
to lose the weight but as his Bobby said
I remember his words very quickly
there’s something inside you even said
it like this something inside you you
passion that takes you forward the guard
over there knows that you’re gifted and
I also believe that God gift everybody
with their heart and for God our entire
life is the time lapse so we have to
really follow a heart and do something
out of it I was very passionate about
this field and how did this happen
I think that’s happened because of two
women in my life I was blessed with my
mother and
my grandmother my mother always tells me
even she’s watching Twilight or maybe a
Harry Potter I must be whatever is iris
and she tells me that you just look like
the hero or even if she’s watching 0:07
James Bourne and my grandmother
pampering me even more GC is that she
taunts my mother says that he looks
better than him and you’re the hero
you’re the kunia gana all the names of
Krishna Berg one that is where I got the
motivation from I think I’m a hero and
then when I was in Delhi I said what
happened to all that but is that here
gone and then I thought no my mom and
grandmother cannot be wrong so either I
give up work hard or change this
ordinary man to achieve extraordinary
dreams so I believe guys a lot of people
talk about sixes lot of people talk
about achieving it for me it is going on
inside my mind every other minute I
think about what I can learn when I was
hearing so many people I I was just
trying to grasp what I can learn today
from this which I didn’t learn when I
heard about Bobby I was connecting so
much with everything was coming from
here two minutes before he told I don’t
know what I’m going to speak so guys
you we have to think so much about our
what we want to become personally
everybody has their own ways my way is
being disconnected before mr. World two
months I was totally disconnected so
that my focus comes only on thing that I
won’t do I only have one best friend who
is not even in the same city as I
believe the less of the friends you have
the less of the time you spend on it and
you work on what you want to become I
would like to speak about one of the
college moment that I have which was
fresh-faced
2010 and fresh-faced happens every year
by Times of India I participated and I
could not be even in the second round
but I could not be eligible in the
second round and that was in 2010 I was
depressed definitely and I know that
depression has to be dealt with only
myself in solitude I can’t share with
this anyone I cried I had tears because
young my grandmother mom say sorry I
look like a hero then why can’t I be in
the second round
I thought let me go for a bigger game so
fresh face was just a college even I
went to mr. India 2015 with lot more
prepared in every way possible
I believe in planning so I watch the mr.
India 2014 video a lot of times and I
won mr. India 2015 so definitely I would
like to say that age is just a number
and no matter how late it is I came back
participating in a bigger pageant after
five years so coming back to yes her
after my after I came to Bombay Bombay
was a time I remember in monsoons the
first thing I did was I got into the gym
I saw a good-looking guy and I asked
where does auditions happen here I don’t
know anything about this place we used
to sit in an auto through your first go
all the way to another place taking an
are going to a place where we don’t know
what the audition is about and we just
used to Alice do we fit in or not so
many rejections my first rejection was
the cameraman laughing it means saying
you have hyderabad delivery body
language because I come from Hyderabad
so I started reading a lot of Hindi
books especially books like Gitano my
Agha so that you get to learn Hindi
because that was available and that too
at the railway stations so in every
aspect I started working and within
second month when I was in Bombay I
remember one of the audition I gave I
just have to say hi in three different
variation hi
and this hi and that sure is like very
naughty very high I thought is this an
audition okay two hundred three hundred
guys I went back to my sitting train I
remember I got a call you could just
selected for malabar jewelry for saying
hi I came back and I gave I when I went
to the stage I didn’t know Kareena
Kapoor was coming and she looked at me I
was just feet away from her two months
in Bombay I was like this is really
happening I didn’t know about it then I
realized the fact people say city of
dreams anything is possible here it is
possible and I never lost hope if this
can come to anything can come true and I
went ahead i won
India 2015 there are a lot of memories I
want to share but I have very less time
limit but one thing I want to share
which is very close to my heart is the
sub contest mr. active I was never
physically as I told you rises to walk
and go to the gym but mr. active is a
sub contest all about metabolism you
need to run 15 guys I thought this is
what I’m not going to nail at all I did
not even run for two kilometers and
there are adding leave arey good very
good guys who are physically fit so I
thought maybe a lot participate in this
competition this sub contest or I just
participate and give my best believe you
me there was not even one person of
missing I’ll do something good for mr.
active a picture which is come in red
t-shirt now walking in the ground
jogging on the ground you see that’s me
but he must thin and only one thing was
in my mind that no matter what happens
because I know the other sub contest for
mr. India I did pretty well and this is
the most important one if I win this I’m
winning the main pageant so I told to
myself no matter what happens I will
fall let the that out of my body or
anything happen I am NOT going to stop
so I was just looking focusing totally
in the ground breathing was really
important I was just hearing to the
trainer over there saying that breathe
jog so we had twenty laps from the 15 10
get selected I was at 9 to 1 in the
second or 5 or 10 5 get selected I was
the fourth one and the third final round
of different functional training we had
I won mr. active which I really could
not believe in my life today zob that
has taught me a mind over body matters
it’s all in our mind if we can say if we
can train our mind and say something we
can really do it for me that was magical
magical moment of my life so therefore I
went ahead I won
mr. active you see pretty much I still
can’t believe this happened but later on
that I became very very much into
fitness so Bombay times when
I came to Bombay I was like this is
where probably I would be in 2020
doing a movie but pretty much in 2015 I
was on the front page of every time some
India newspaper and special thanks to
also mr. regen not everybody gives a
platform for ordinary people like us to
participate to show our talent to prove
ourselves represent our country at mr.
world but thanks to this man that this
platform has come to me and one more
great thing that has happened was
winning winning mr. wall of course a lot
of preparation went ahead for this
I remember thinking about mr. world day
and night went ahead and one more thing
that has happened which opened my eyes
was for the finale answer we was
supposed to impress Megan Young who is
Miss World 2013 and in your own way so
romantic when romance comes I can only
think about Shahrukh Khan and that line
from it Nisha that Samaritans amar what
ek Hazaaron a mojit tons of malonic is
sausage ki-ki-ri-ki cheese curd sh aho
so sorry Khanna to me o similar anime
like Gita I set this lines to her
because we have supposed to impress her
and then I converted into English and we
have the video we want to show so I
really don’t know how it happened but I
thought this is what my gut feeling said
I was not nervous at all and it pretty
well went well and that helped me to win
mr. World 2016 so this is how guys I in
life I’ve never planned to participate
in a male beauty pageant I came to
Bombay for something else but sometimes
opportunities come in our life we just
grab it and you know anything can happen
but what I would like to tell is just
listen to your heart it’s all about
following your heart thinking what you
want to do every now and then it’s a
passion which keeps the people going and
keep that passion alive so thank you
guys that’s all about it
I honestly doesn’t have much to say
because III accept that it’s not much
I’ve thought about winning mr. world all
my life
I’ve just thought about it two years
back and somewhere planning and
preparation I think we forget to
practically believe will it be possible
or not when I put myself there I thought
how would I look how would I be able to
perform the sub contest what is the
judges requirement did we would I was
all the videos of past mr. worlds so
knowledge is power guys so I realize
this is something which the Miss full
organization will light because they’re
all about heart I had a story they would
like it and I can perform well
preparation made me confident and if you
can do that anything is possible
thank you
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