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The glamorous world of Mumbai has seduced many aspiring actors who want to be the next Amitabh Bachchan, or the next Govinda, or perhaps, the next Shah Rukh Khan but out of the thousands of actors who land in Mumbai every single day, very few have been able to make it. When Yogesh Tripathi left his hometown in Uttar Pradesh and wanted to make it as an actor in Mumbai, he decided that he would make ends meet all by himself, and after being in the city for 20 years now, Yogesh has reached a stage where he makes around Rs 24 lakh every month as an actor.
Best known for his role in Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain, that eventually gave him his own show, Happu Ki Ultan Paltan, Yogesh, recently appeared on Siddharth Kannan’s YouTube channel and shared that when he first came to Mumbai to make it as an actor, he started working in theatre. But even before, his first brush with the city happened because of the railways exam where he, along with two of his friends, traveled back from Mumbai to Jhansi in a train where they stood near the washbasin in the general compartment for 18 hours. He then moved to Mumbai in 2004, but got his first popular commercial in 2007.
For those three years in the city, Yogesh would find odd jobs for himself to survive. He sold pens for Rs 150, would get a job as a background actor and get paid Rs 1500. He remembered that his first job in the city gave him Rs 95, and theatre jobs would get him Rs 75. In 2007, when his first ad got popular, Yogesh got a role in the TV show FIR, and here, he would get around Rs 2800 as an actor.
But, he has come a long way since then. Yogesh revealed that he started his journey on Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain in 2015 with the role of Happu Singh, and would get Rs 8,000 per day, and since he was a recurring character on the show, he would only get 2-3 days of work in those early days of the show. This meant that he made around Rs 24,000 from the show in the beginning. Eventually, his role got popular, so much so, that the channel gave him a spin-off based on his character in 2019.
Yogesh revealed that he now gets Rs 60,000 per day, and since he sometimes works on both – Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain and Happu Ki Ultan Paltan – he gets paid for around 40 days (every shift counts as one day in television so an actor working more than one shift in one day, gets paid accordingly) every month. Yogesh was asked if he was making around Rs 24 lakh every month and he nodded in agreement.
He also revealed in the same chat that he owns four apartments in Mumbai because when he first moved to the city, he spent four nights at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CST) and vowed that he would buy four houses one day. He also shared that he has never borrowed any money for these houses, and has never taken a loan.
Yogesh has been a part of mainstream television for 20 years now.
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