Kay Kay Menon plays his mentor in the show

Another person who left a lasting impression on him was Menon. His admiration and respect for the senior actor translated on screen as he played a mentee to Menon’s station master Iftekaar Siddiqui. “Some things cannot be created mechanically. Imaad’s love and respect for Siddiqui came from my own reverence for Kay Kay sir. It came from the time I spent with him, his generosity and kindness.” 

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In the past year since his debut, Khan has won critical acclaim for his performances and a steady base of fans who are curious to see what he brings to the screen. How does this first brush with success feel? “I don’t define popularity as success. So, I’ll say that I haven’t experienced success yet,” he says, sounding wiser than his years. This wisdom, you realise, has been imbibed from his mother Sutapa Sikdar. Fittingly then, he considers her the true barometer of his success. “If I go home and mumma is happy with what I’ve done, then I am a successful man. I’ll go to sleep feeling successful. But I will wake up the next day feeling unsuccessful again, and I have to try again so that mumma can say, ‘I am proud of you today as well.’”