The latest offering on SonyLIV, 13th: Some Lessons Aren’t Taught in Classrooms, delves into the gritty and relatable reality of the ‘gap year’ — that intense, often stressful period many students dedicate to cracking the highly competitive IIT entrance exams. It’s a familiar scenario, one that plays out in countless Indian households every year.

Interestingly, for actor Gagan Dev Riar, the show marked his first real exposure to this world of engineering aspirations. Born in Delhi and raised partly in Pathankot before moving to Mumbai, Gagan started his acting journey early in life — thanks to his father, who once dreamt of being an actor himself. By the age of 16, Gagan was already pursuing theatre seriously, blissfully unaware of the academic grind his peers were enduring in the hopes of

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