This was so much fun that it felt like old friends catching up after a while. But Sahil Khattar and Amol Parashar knew each other only casually before they sat down for a brand new season of Lunchbox at Yazu – Pan Asian Supper Club in Andheri. Sahil is a digital content-creator-cum-TV-show host-cum-film actor whose new movie, 200, is just around the corner. Amol is the golden boy of Indian web shows whose latest project is Feels Like Ishq. They got along like such a house on fire that even an entire newspaper page might not do justice to their repartee. That's why it's prudent for you to also head to mid-day's YouTube channel to check out a longer video version of their interaction. Meanwhile, here are the best, handpicked nuggets of chatter.

 
Shunashir to Sahil: I've heard that your parents wanted you to join the family business. Is that true?
Sahil (laughs):Yes, but mereko bohot bada keeda tha, yaar. I just wanted to do something in the entertainment business and the whole world was against it, not just my parents. I'll tell you about an incident. This is amazing. My brother's friends are really the who's-who of Panchkula near Chandigarh, and one day, one of them made me sit and said, 'Hey youngeshter, kya karega Bombay jaake? Sab bhaandgiri hain.' Then he took the name of a top Bollywood actor, saying, 'Ek baar yeh hamaare ghar aaye thhe. Humne unko 'hello' tak nahin bola.' And I thought, 'Isme teri ego kahaan se aa gayi?!' As if that actor wanted a 'hello' from that one person sitting in the corner with that hairstyle. But that's how people used to think, and I'm very happy that I proved them wrong.
Shunashir to Amol:And for you, after your theater days in IIT Delhi, your acting career stalled for a bit and you entered the corporate world.
Amol: It was not a career [laughs]. I basically got a job, which was the original plan — go to IIT and get a decent job. Thankfully, that happened and I moved to Pune. And that's when realization dawned because when I didn't have the stage anymore, I understood how much I enjoyed acting. I began thinking of taking a break from my job, a sabbatical. So I told my parents, and they were disturbed. They didn't realize the journey I had already envisioned in my head.
Shunashir: That's a kind that both of you share then, of your parents having a problem with you taking a plunge into the entertainment industry.
Amol:I mean, it's a very natural thing to happen to North-Indian middle-class parents [who'd say], 'Yeh kya kar rahe ho?' They've heard all these horror stories from bhaiyas who say 'youngeshter'. But these are genuine emotions. It's not like they were making it up.