This popular television actor became bankrupt, quit acting, went to his village and became a farmer

Rajesh Kumar, best known as Roshesh from the popular sitcom Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai, has spoken about his tough phase, going back to his hometown and becoming a farmer, and how he became bankrupt after a point.

While speaking to Rajshri Unplugged, the actor revealed, “In 2017, I went back to my village from where I started. We had land there so I told my father I wanted to become a farmer. He thought 2-3 mahine ka bhoot hai but it went on. And I completely gave in.”

He added, “With farming I felt like, it is an empty canvas. You can be a good painter and paint it well. And that’s how I started. I worked for 5 years relentlessly on farming. A lot of debacles happened, A faced a lot of losses. In terms of less knowledge… I’d planted 15,000 trees on 20 acres of land. I got to learn a lot. There was a lot of shift that was happening with me. There were no floods in that area in the last 30 years but the flood came when I had planted trees and it had hardly grown one feet. My farm got flooded. I waited for the rains to stop and again started planting, then lockdown happened.”

On being bankrupt

There were some savings definitely but by then I was losing on to a lot of stuff and financially, it was a slide. I think post corona, I was literally bankrupt. That I did not have anything in my pocket. and I was having pressure of loan as well. So there was a phase.

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