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Zoya Akhtar discovered him as her Jughead on the sets of Made In Heaven Season 2. He played Bulbul Jauhari’s (Mona Singh) son Dhruv Jauhari in the series and impressed the critics with his range. Mihir speaks about the time when The Archies came to him. “One day, Zoya took over some episodes. And that’s when she met me. She found me impressive enough and told me that she was doing the film. The Archies and wanted me to audition for it. Later on, when we were shooting and she was telling how she cast every character, she told me that the day I saw you in Made In Heaven, I knew you were my Jughead. She’s extremely calm on set and would not lose her cool ever. She was our mother on the sets. She was too sweet.” Mihir even jokes that it’s probably because of his jagged nose that Zoya found him perfect for that character. All the cast was required to attend numerous workshops before filming began, which strengthened their bonds and helped them hone their craft better. They all became great friends too in the process.
The actor made his debut in Bollywood with Super 30 (2019), starring Hrithik Roshan. He recalls the experience as being fulfilling. “Of course, you don’t see much of me because a large portion of my role got edited.” Before Super 30, he did OTT projects like Feels Like Ishq, Engineering Girls, Candy, and Made In Heaven, slowly consolidating his position in the industry.
Mihir hails from Jamshedpur. He reveals that he has supportive parents, who only wanted him to get an MBA degree after finishing B Com. He joined a college which wasn’t that strict when it came to attendance and was able to audition for roles during college because of that. He confesses his fair share of struggle in the city of dreams. He even thought of quitting and returning back to his hometown but somehow convinced himself to stick around. He reveals that he once shared a room with 12 people. It didn’t offer any sort of privacy and didn’t give him space to practise beatboxing, which he loves. He shares how he pretty much discovered his pull towards it during one of the shows on a music channel where the host was interviewing the cast of Happy New Year. “The interviewer was a beatboxer. I found it interesting and wanted to try it. I watched a lot of YouTube videos. I used to play drums in school, so
I had that rhythm.”
With The Archies travelling the world and bringing their story to every nook and cranny, his talent has both been witnessed and heard far and beyond. He has come a long way and with it has come a lot of learning. He speaks about how he’s gotten better at handling rejections with time. “When you audition, you know 90 per cent of it won’t work out and you will probably get one or two projects. I’m also a bit mindful of what projects I want to do or not want to do. When I came to Mumbai, I was auditioning for everything right, left and centre.”
He speaks excitedly about some exciting opportunities he has lined up now after The Archies, which include an OTT project with Anupam Kher titled Vijay 69, a sports film. The conversation ends with a lot of laughter as he confesses that he’s a self-declared Govinda and Ranbir Kapoor fan. With a shared love for Imtiaz Ali films, his voice gets chirpier as he speaks about Tamasha being his favourite film and that he finds the filmmaker, who also hails from Jamshedpur, fascinating. He reveals his wish to work with Rajkumar Hirani and Vishal Bhardwaj, as we wrap up this heart-to-heart conversation with a solid manifestation.
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