At just over 21, Rajat Barmecha seems much like a regular guy of his age, but he is the lead of the season's most raved desi movie 'Udaan'. But the actor says it all happened just by chance.

"People ask me, why did I choose a film like Udaan. See with me it wasn't a choice. It wasn't like my big producer dad came, offered me three scripts and I picked one. Whatever happened, happened by chance, " says the actor.

Three years ago, he came to Mumbai to do a course on jewellery designing, but 10 days later the course turned out to be

so boring that he ditched the idea and started going in for movie auditions, he told CNN-IBN. The actor, who has been getting piles of encouraging reviews, says the experience has been surreal.

"Last night I was at a theatre watching the movie with an audience and suddenly someone spotted me and started shouting and soon it was almost everybody started looking, " says Barmecha, "It was a bit odd."

"I always wanted to be an actor, but since I had no family backing I never took that dream seriously, " he says.

He went in for auditions for ‘an Anurag Kashyap film' and then the wheels started turning.

Director Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan, tells the story of Rohan played by Barmecha, who returns home to Jamshedpur after being left at a boarding school for eight years only to a life with an authoritarian father and realise his dream of becoming a writer.

He says how director Motwane gradually groomed him for the role with scores of ‘serious' movies and ‘just hanging out with them team'.

After nearly a month he finally got the green signal from the director's mother herself who gave him his contract.

"The shooting experience was good. But I wasn't allowed a TV in my room, " he says.

Speaking about the response, he says, "I knew it would turn out to be a nice film, but i never expected so much."

The response has been universal; it has turned out to be small budget film to be universally cheered by critics and Twitter celebs alike.

So what's next? Barmecha says he was offered two off-beat films but he turned them down to not get type cast.

"I want to do commercial Bollywood films, " says the actor earnestly.