For actor Sidhant Gupta, Mumbai may be where he works, but his roots remain firmly in Jammu. Raised in a city that sits at the very heart of India's most storied and complex region, Sidhant carries his roots not as nostalgia, but as an active creative inheritance, one where Jammu's proximity to Kashmir has quietly but powerfully informed the characters he has been drawn to. He says, "It's fascinating how two of my most prominent roles hailed from not too far from Jammu. To think of it, must have helped in being casted.