As he sat at the Majestic Bus Station in Bengaluru, he had a rather dramatic eureka moment. The 16-year-old was left with no choice, but to pack his bags and go back home to Mysuru. Unfortunately, two days into the shoot, the film was cancelled. “It was an unpaid job, but because it was a film shoot, I knew they will provide food and a room. With ₹300 in his pocket, he took a bus to Bengaluru for his first stint as an assistant director for a film in 2003. As most parents with no background in the film industry, his were worried about the kind of future he might have. They said, ‘You can go now, but if you come back, we will not let you pursue acting’,” he recounts. “I fought with them and decided to go to Bengaluru. Yash pushed himself to complete two more years of studying, and then put his foot down. His parents never took his desire to become an actor seriously till he announced that he wanted to quit studying after class 10 in order to pursue acting. “However, no matter how tough things got,” he tells Forbes India, “my parents ensured that I was never deprived of anything.” Back then, his father, Arun Kumar J, was a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus driver and mother, Pushpa, a homemaker. Though becoming a hero was the endgame, coming from a middle-class family, Yash knew it was going to be a Herculean task. Every time someone at school asked him what he wanted to become when he grew up, unlike the other kids, who said engineer or astronaut, Yash would proudly say ‘hero’. “At a very young age, I got used to all the appreciation and I liked it,” says the 35-year-old actor, who was earlier called Naveen Kumar Gowda before he changed his name to Yash.
The much-awaited, and delayed, sequel, KGF: Chapter 2, is slated to release in April 2022, and Yash cannot wait, just like he eagerly looked forward to annual days during his school in Mysuru so that he could participate in theatre and dance competitions. It took close to three decades and several films in his mother tongue Kannada, but Yash is now finally basking under the spotlight of fame and adulation, particularly since the pan-India popularity of his most ambitious film KGF: Chapter 1 in 2018.
The kid loved every bit of the attention and popularity, and resolved that he would grow up to be a superstar. The crowd roared with cheers and the lower kindergarten student became the ‘hero’ of his school in Mysuru. If you let me go in the jungle, I will capture Veerappan and bring him back in two days,” shouted a three-year-old boy dressed as a police officer at his school’s fancy dress competition. Yash, one of the highest-paid actors in the Kannada film industry
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