Actor Arjun Rampal opened up about the financial struggles that he experienced after deciding to stop modelling and try to make it in the movies.
He also highlighted the role that a kind sardarji landlord played in his life by allowing him some wiggle room to pay rent.
He’d come on the first of every month, and he’d look me and I’d look at him.
He’d say, ‘Nahi hai (You don’t have the money, do you)?’ And I’d shake my head.
After being forced to move houses because he could no longer afford to live at the sardarji’s house, Arjun said, “I had two dogs, and I would eat veg food, they’d eat non-veg food.
Actor Arjun Rampal opened up about the financial struggles that he experienced after deciding to stop modelling and try to make it in the movies. He said that he never could have anticipated that the first film he signed would take six years to release, and that during this time, he wouldn’t have any money. He also highlighted the role that a kind sardarji landlord played in his life by allowing him some wiggle room to pay rent.
In an interview with Pop Diaries, Arjun was asked how he deals with dark times, and the actor said, “The reason why you don’t want to remember your struggles is that when the good times come, you want to forget them because you’re so scared of thinking about that and manifesting that time again. It’s almost like a defence mechanism for a celebrity, till they reach a point of security where they can go back and revisit it,” he said, describing his own struggles as a ‘nightmare’.
Also read – Varun Badola opens up about near-brush with financial ruin, says he had less than Rs 2 lakh in his bank account and 7 mouths to feed Advertisement Opening up about the difficulties that he faced early in his acting career, Arjun continued, “I was a very successful model, and Ashok Mehta came to me with this film Moksha, where I was paired opposite this fantastic actor, Manisha Koirala. She was at her peak at that time… I was shooting a scene with her in the Chambal valley, the rushes came and I saw myself and I hated myself. I thought, ‘My God, you’re horrible’.” Arjun said that he was stiff in front of the camera, which was a result of his training as a model. “So, I decided I’m not going to model anymore. I didn’t know that the film would take six years to get made,” he said. Arjun continued, “I had no source of income in that period of time. I was living in Seven Bungalows at that time, I had a wonderful landlord, a sardarji. He’d come on the first of every month, and he’d look me and I’d look at him. He’d say, ‘Nahi hai (You don’t have the money, do you)?’ And I’d shake my head. He’d say, ‘Koi nahi, tu de dega (Never mind, I’m sure you’ll pay me).’ He was the sweetest man; you need those kind of breaks in your life.” Arjun said that he signed another film after this, and that even though he’d moved houses, he invited the kind landlord to his premiere after paying him back. After being forced to move houses because he could no longer afford to live at the sardarji’s house, Arjun said, “I had two dogs, and I would eat veg food, they’d eat non-veg food. I was like, ‘Why is this happening to me’.” Arjun said that experiences like this are important, because they teach you gratitude. The actor was last seen in the action film Crakk.
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