Rajkummar Rao without a doubt is one of the brightest talents in the Hindi film industry. The actor is currently enjoying the success of his last release The White Tiger which also starred Priyanka Chopra and Gaurav Adarsh in leading roles.
Rao had to deal with his fair share of struggles to get where he is today. However, his passion for cinema and acting helped him face every obstacle that came his way. In an interview with a leading daily, the actor revealed, “I fell in love with my art when I was a kid. I was never chasing fame and money; this is what I wanted to do. I did theatre and went to the Film Institute as I did not want to come here unprepared. You’ll have friends who’ll say that you do very good mimicry and impressions and look good too. And they’ll ask you to go to Mumbai and be an actor. But it is not that simple. Cinema is changing and we need talent out there now. We need to get trained and have some experience before coming here. I came here and I did not want to give up chasing my dream without Plan B. My mother always had faith in me. She asked me to keep working and that it will work out. She never told me, ‘Why don’t you try TV serials?’ It is not that I am looking down upon that medium, but I wanted to be in films. I was staying in Mumbai with two of my batch mates, chasing my dream since 2008, and Mumbai is an expensive city. There were days when there was no money for food, and we’d go to a friend’s house and ask, ‘Can I share your meal?’ And they were kind enough to do that.”
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