Orry: People can never tell when I’m joking or being serious

Orhan Awatramani, aka Orry, joining Khatron Ke Khiladi may sound unexpected, but according to him, there wasn’t much thought behind it. “I’m in this phase of my life where I’m just saying yes to everything,” he says. “Do you want to eat sausages for breakfast? Yes. Do you want to do Khatron Ke Khiladi? Yes. Do you want to jump off a cliff? Yes. I’m just going to say yes to everything!”
While social media sees him as chaotic and funny, Orry says people often misunderstand the line between his jokes and serious thoughts. “Because I’m so funny and giggly and sunshine all the time, when I do say something serious, people sit down to listen. Sometimes my delivery of even serious matters comes across as comical, so people can never tell when I’m joking or being serious,” he says.



That confusion extends to his career choices, too. Asked if he wants to become an actor, his answer is both yes and no. “If you ask me to do something, I’m going to say yes. But do I want to? No. So if someone asks me to act, I will do it, but I don’t want to be an actor.”

When asked how he deals with trolls on social media, he says, “People write about me, they post about me and form their opinions. This is the price you pay for being a forever-relevant person. Some people are famous, but they’re not actively relevant all the time. I am actively relevant every day.” According to him, that level of attention comes with losing control over your own image. “You lose not only the power of privacy, but you lose the right to define yourself. You’re constantly being defined by other people.”
Orry says opportunities somehow keep finding him. “I don’t really look forward to anything. Things just happen in my life. God has blessed me with a life with so many opportunities, and that’s the biggest luxury of them all. So, I grab every opportunity that comes my way, and I dominate it,” he says.