Mohar Basu mohar. basu@ mid- day. com For someone functioning on bare minimum sleep, Kartik Aaryan is surprisingly high on energy when we sit down at 10 am for a long chat in the rustic- looking terrace room of Imtiaz Aliu2019s suburban office.

u201c Itu2019s yet to sink in that I am the leading man of an Imtiaz Ali film,u201d gushes Aaryan, who remembers watching Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukoneu2019s Love Aaj Kal ( 2009) as a wideeyed college boy in Mumbai.