of the Bollywood industry keeps me youthful
There is no greater delight for singer-actor Meiyang Chang than being a member of the entertainment business. In fact, he credits his career with keeping him youthful as well as helping him establish a reputation for himself.
Chang, who celebrated his birthday today, says, “I’m turning 39, but it doesn’t seem like it.”
One may think that all the pressure that comes with this career would make one believe otherwise, but Chang, who left his work as a dentist to pursue singing and acting, disagrees.
“It’s truly different for me. If I were still practising dentistry, I believe I would have said to myself, “Oh my God, I’m so old.” But the wonderful thing is that it has kept me, and pretty much everyone engaged in it, ageless since I arrived in Mumbai. Being a part of the Bollywood industry keeps me youthful. We believe that our physical age is irrelevant, but we are still youthful at heart. I might be 90 years old tomorrow and yet feel young, active, and energised. I’m not sure how it would be in a different profession, but I’m pleased I’m here,” adds the actor, who made his Bollywood debut in 2010 with Badmaash Company.
Chang is looking forward to his birthday this year, all the more so because it will be a working birthday, and he will celebrate the important day on set with the rest of the cast and crew.
“It will be a working birthday, since working birthdays are the finest sort of birthdays. Since my arrival in Mumbai… This is my 14th year, and I believe I’ve worked on ten of them, three of which have Ben non-working. One of them was last year, when I contracted Covid on my birthday, which was a tragedy. So it was a memorable birthday for all the wrong reasons,” recalls the 1962 star of The War in the Hills.
When asked how his birthday celebrations have altered throughout the years, Chang confesses that they have always been ruined by examinations. “It was primarily a studying birthday because October was always the month of my Dentistry final examinations, and I would warn my friends that I wouldn’t be partying for the next 6 years. I was in boarding school before that, so it would be a low-key affair,” he concludes.
