Saurabh Sachdeva: I am dyslexic; I was bullied a lot in school because of my academics

It’s an undeniable fact that there’s a lot of hard work and dedication required to ace in the field of acting in order to become a notable actor. In an exclusive chat with ETimes, acting coach, filmmaker as well as an actor Saurabh Sachdeva opened up about the biggest reasons for taking acting as a career and contributing in the industry by being a coach. He also opened up about being bullied in school, his struggles with dyslexia and walked us down the memory lane when Richa Chadha, Varun Dhawan, Harshvardhan Rane and Rana Daggubati were his students. Apart from them, Frieda Pinto, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vaani Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, among many others have been trained by him. He has been teaching since 19 years. He has also taken workshops for many Bollywood films and has directed and acted in a number of plays in Delhi and Mumbai. Saurabh Sachdeva will soon be seen in Bejoy Nambiar’s ‘Taish’ sharing screen space with Pulkit Samrat, Jim Sarbh, Kriti Kharbanda, Sanjeeda Sheikh, and Harshvardhan Rane. Here are excerpts from his chat with ETimes.