Kohrra’s Suvinder Vicky says he sold insurance policies before becoming actor: ‘Would get anxiety thinking…’

“Acting isn’t like a proper 9-5 ‘job’. The trend in our family was always that either you look after the farm or get a regular job. My father fortunately had a regular job and would do as a hobby, so I inherited that passion. Even I tried to do that, without actually wanting to do it, that I do regular work and pursue this as my hobby. I would get anxiety thinking I will have to do something apart from acting.”

Suvinder said his father’s friend had an insurance company and so he was asked to join them, which he did halfheartedly. “I would sell policies to people. But I just couldn’t concentrate on all the terms and conditions that you have to tell the customer, that the policy would mature after 12 years and they would get that much in return, I was anyway weak in math but did it because he wanted me to.

 

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“But it didn’t last long. I had even complained about my unhappiness in doing that to my mom, who would understand me. She would tell my dad that it’s because of his interest in acting that I am interested in it as well!” he added.

Suvinder’s performance on the show earned him unprecedented acclaim, with many calling it one of the finest acts in recent years. Filmmaker Karan Johar had called Suvinder the “revelation of 2023 across film and streaming” and said that the actor’s silences can “launch a million scripts”.

Other notable works of Suvinder include Ivan Ayr’s Meel Patthar (also titled Milestone), in which he played a truck driver trying to come to terms with the death of his wife and Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction), set in a post-Operation Blue Star Punjab in the ’80s.