Old Indian SUV Yuvraj Singh He recently revisited a lesser-known chapter from his childhood, his first appearance in a Punjabi film, during a conversation with Sania Mirza. Yuvraj revealed that his introduction to acting was largely driven by circumstances and the time he spent with his father. Yograj Singh.
Yuvraj Singh on acting as a child
Yuvraj shared that as a child he appeared in a Punjabi film alongside his father, who had switched from cricket to acting. “Keeda pehle se tha, abhi bhi hai. But my well-wishers say, ‘Let it go’, so I let it go,” he said.
“Basically, the film I did happened at a time when I was not doing well in school. My father told me, ‘Come with me to the shoot. Keep practicing cricket, but also do this.’ So I went along with him and the role I played was the child version of my father.”
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Watching his father act and growing up surrounded by fame.
When asked if watching his father perform helped him achieve success and fame, Yuvraj said, “When I look back on that time now, it was actually about what your parents told you to do when you were eight or nine years old. You go along because you want to spend time with them. For me, it was about being with my father and seeing what he did, because he loved acting.”
“I never wanted to be an actor”
Despite his early exposure to cinema, Yuvraj made it clear that acting was never his dream. In fact, neither was cricket, at least at first. As a child, his interests leaned toward skating, tennis, and indoor games. Spending hours in the sun playing cricket, he admitted, didn’t appeal to him at the time.
Yuvraj admitted that in many ways cricket was imposed on him at first, although he eventually came to enjoy it and commit fully to it.
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A complicated father-son equation
Yuvraj also talked about how his relationship with his father changed once he started training. “When I was a kid, he was a father. When he started coaching me, he was never a father after that, he was a coach. That’s probably the saddest part. What parents learn, they pass on to their children. We have to learn from that and be better for our children. He did what he knew at the time, but it’s a very fine line as a father,” Yuvraj said.
Yograj Singh remembers throwing Yuvraj Singh’s medal
Earlier, in a conversation with Saurav Yaduvanshi, Yograj Singh He also spoke openly about Yuvraj’s childhood, admitting that his son was gradually losing interest in cricket and gravitating towards tennis and skating. “I wanted my son to take revenge on me, on the system, on the selectors and on everyone who laughed at me,” he recalled. Yograj described a moment that left a lasting impression.
“One day, Yuvraj was skating in a competition and he got a lot of medals. We sat in the car, I took his medals and threw them out of the car. This was the wrong thing to do. Then I took his skates, threw them and he started crying.”
While Yuvraj cried, Yograj admitted that he reacted harshly. “Shut up,” he roared, adding that due to his “very bad temper,” neither Yuvraj nor his mother spoke much during the trip. The incident escalated at home, where Yograj’s mother intervened forcefully. “He told me that you better die. He told me that if you are going to treat my son like this, you better leave the house. He abused me a lot,” Yograj said.
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“I told them, ‘Either I will live in this house or he will live. I want him to play cricket and I won’t let him go until he plays. You can do whatever you want.’ “That’s how champions are made,” he said.