Sidharth Shukla's 'gym buddy' mourns actor's death, says 'he never brought popularity or success in between friendships'

Model-turned-actor Arpit Ranka, who has known Sidharth Shukla since his early days and has been his gym buddy, spoke about the actor's untimely death.

New Delhi: Model-turned-actor Arpit Ranka, who has known Sidharth Shukla since his early days and has been his gym buddy, remembered the late actor in this conversation with IANS. In Arpit's own words: Today, in the morning I was entering the gym when I received the message that Sidharth is no more. I knew Sidharth since 2004 when both of us were models. We would shoot for fashion designers, ad campaigns, ramp modelling and our lifestyle was around fitness, maintaining our body and look like any other models back then. I lived in Andheri all these years in the same compound that Sidharth lived and we would work out together whenever we got time; since after a point of time both of us got busy with acting. I was mostly busy shooting mythological shows whereas Sidharth was into a daily soap.