Rajesh Kumar tearfully says he had only Rs 2500 in bank, debt collectors visited home when he quit acting for farming: ‘I was shattered’

His 2nd effort met with different setback erstwhile the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, preventing him from tending to the workplace for 3 months. As a result, 75% of his harvest was damaged. By November, Rajesh made a 3rd effort astatine farming. “We would transport cattle dung successful my car, and my kids refused to thrust successful it afterward,” helium joked. Just erstwhile things seemed to stabilize, his workplace was devastated by a fire, which destroyed fractional of the crops. “I was shattered. I thought I couldn’t continue. It conscionable didn’t look possible,” helium recalled.

Determined to support going, Rajesh pivoted to planting vegetables. “Finally I acceptable up a array successful beforehand of my son’s schoolhouse and started selling the vegetables. It arsenic the clip EMIs started bouncing. Credit paper radical started coming to my house. I had accumulated a batch of debt. We conscionable near the workplace and went. Then my bully inning successful acting started,” helium said.

Rajesh past returned to acting, landing a relation successful Binny And Family, which was filmed successful the UK. Despite the opportunity, helium was truthful financially strained that helium couldn’t adjacent spend chocolates for his children. “I had conscionable Rs 2,500 successful my slope relationship erstwhile I was successful the UK. I traveled backmost and distant doubly during that 24-day shoot, but I couldn’t bring backmost adjacent 2 chocolates for my kids,” helium said emotionally.

Rajesh returned to acting with Kota Factory 2, wherever helium played a tiny relation of a Math teacher. He besides acted successful Shahid Kapoor-starrer Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya and Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Rautu Ka Raaz.