India, Oct. 15 -- For actor-comedian Viraj Ghelani, known for Jawan (2023) and Govinda Naam Mera (2022), Navratri is a time when fame takes a back seat. He stops working after 6pm, turns down lucrative offers and returns to the same garba grounds where he danced as a child, surrounded by friends who knew him long before he became a familiar face. "These days are mine. I won't share them with anyone," he says. Ghelani's garba persona is best summed up by singer Falguni Pathak's Pari Hu Main, a song he eagerly dances to at Navratri events. "I am a princess. My wife (Palak Khimavat) also calls me that because I love attention and I love it when people do things for me. Whenever the song plays, I tell people to let me do my step and then I join them," he says. The festival remains deeply personal to him. "I go back to my roots, to where I started celebrating Navratri and playing garba as a child," he adds, refusing to trade his familiar dance circle for a VIP section. "Navratri is a celebration of the person I was and the person I am. It is a homage to the fact that you should never forget your roots," says the 36-year-old. His bond with the festival was forged in simpler times, when he would buy passes for Rs.2,000 and sell them to friends for Rs.2,200 to fund his garba outings and dinner. His childhood friend, director Oneel Prashant Karnik, was part of those adventures. "Our childhood goal was that we should never become so famous that we stop playing garba during Navratri," he recalls. Even today, Ghelani makes time for the celebrations he grew up attending, especially those featuring Pathak. Despite fans stopping him for photographs, he ensures he returns to the dance floor. "These garba days won't come back for another year. Everything is on pause for these 10 days," he ends....