This actor, who appeared in Kota Factory, had decided to quit acting at the peak of his career. He quit acting and started farming. Recently, in an interview, this actor talked about his career. He told why he quit acting. Also, he also told why he started acting again. During this, this actor told that he even sold vegetables in front of his child’s school.
Played an important role in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai
Did you recognize the name of this actor? If not, let us tell you. The actor we are talking about is Rajesh Kumar. Rajesh Kumar is known for playing the character of Rosesh in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai. Apart from this, the actor has also been seen in serials like Yeh Meri Family Hai and Yam Kisi Se Kam Nahin. During a conversation in Siddharth Kannan’s podcast, Rajesh talked about aspects related to his career.
In 2017, he decided to quit acting.
Rajesh Kumar decided to quit acting and do farming in the year 2017. In the podcast, Rajesh told how he started the startup of ‘Family Farming’. Rajesh called many of his friends for this startup idea. He said, some friends showed interest in it, others ignored it. Rajesh said that there is a long list of such people who first said that this is a very good idea, but later ignored me. This startup of Rajesh was unsuccessful.
Loss in startup
After this, Rajesh told another incident related to his life. He said, “When the startup failed, I started selling vegetables outside my son’s school. People started thinking that he has gone mad? Why is he selling vegetables. This happened when my son saw me selling vegetables outside his school, he went to his teachers and asked them if they would buy vegetables from my father? He was in class 3 at that time. After this, all the children studying with him went to different classrooms and requested the teachers to buy vegetables from me.”
Told why he sold vegetables outside his son’s school
Rajesh became emotional while telling this. He said that the reason for selling vegetables outside his son’s school was that I wanted to tell the children that this is a great work. My goal was to educate consumers, not farmers.
Cheated in business
Rajesh did this for five years. During this time, he incurred a debt of about two crores. He said, “My maths was weak. I did not realize that I was incurring a loss of 22 to 25 rupees per kilo. There was a lot of wastage. By this time, I had incurred a loss of 12 to 15 lakh rupees. I already owed 1 crore rupees. Then I thought of making an app so that orders and money could be kept track of. Everything was going haywire on WhatsApp. But when the app was made, the person who made the app cheated me. Within three months of making the app, I had incurred a huge loss. After this, I had to shut down my startup.”
Then made a comeback in acting
Rajesh said that I had to answer those people who had invested money in my business. I had to answer those farmers who were associated with me. All this became very emotional for me. Then I told myself that if I did not do anything right now, I would die with a debt of two crores. Let us tell you, Rajesh Kumar then returned to acting with Kota Factory 2. Apart from this, he also appeared in Shahid Kapoor’s film Teri Baton Mein Aisa Ulza Jiya.
