"It Relieves You": Agastya Nanda On Turning Spiritual After Anxiety Hits During The Archies (image@agastyanandaaa)
Agastya Nanda opened up about turning to religion after going through “bad phase of anxiety” during his debut film, The Archies. Talking to his sister Navya Naveli Nanda on her podcast show, ‘What The Hell Navya’. The granddaughter of Bollywood ‘Big B’ Amitabh Bachchan has grabbed attention with her show, as her grandmother Jaya Bachchan and mother Shweta Bachchan gave peeks in to several interesting revelations.
In the lates episode of What The Hell Navya Season 2, Navya asked if men are open to discussing mental health issues these days. Responding to her question, Agastya said mental health is a very “personal thing” as can look “absolutely fine” while going through many issues.
When Jaya Bachchan opined that not just men but everyone is now open on talking about mental health, Agastya opened up about his own experience on going through a rough time. He said, “I was a really anxious person. I am saying was because I went through a really bad phase of it. Like I used to feel a lot of anxiety”.
When Navya revealed that Agastya meditates a lot, the star said that according to him, when one is living in a world where a lot is happening, they retorts to the things that “just grounds you”. He further added that people in their generation are more anxious, owing to the habitual of getting what they want instantly.
He said, “we have lost patience and we’ve lost faith. We’ve lost faith that things will work out, or things will be okay, because we’re so used to things being certain now”, to which his sister agreed.
Shedding light on the time of his debut film, Agastya said he became ‘very religious and spiritual’ and it came naturally to him. He said believing in something beyond his power helped him in relieving.
The grandson of Bachchan said the burden of whether people will like him or not, if he would do well in the film or not has caused him anxiety, which made him turn to God. He said, “when I started acting, doing my first film, I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do, if I’m going to do well, if people are going to like me, if they’ll think I’m bad’. There are so many things. I did my best, and I was like, ‘God, I leave it up to you’. I have to keep faith in something beyond me. Whoever you believe in, whether it’s God, or energy, manifestations, you believe in your mother, sister, if you just pass on that burden, it relieves you”.
Agastya Nanda stepped into Bollywood along with a bunch of new faces, including Khushi Kapoor and Suhana Khan, in Zoya Akhtar helmed The Archies. The star is now gearing up for his next film Ekkis with Sriram Raghavan.
