Randeep Hooda recalls having ‘zero money’, says he had to even sell his car but refused to part ways with horses

Actor Randeep Hooda recalled experiencing financial struggles, which forced him to sell his dear horse.

Written by Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | March 22, 2024 02:50 PM IST

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Randeep Hooda poses with his wife Lin Laishram and a horse.

Actor Randeep Hooda looked back on his struggles in the film business, and said that out of the 23 years that he’s been working in movies, in 11 of those years, he wasn’t on set at all. In his worst moments, he had to sell off all his worldly possessions, including his car and his microwave. But he drew a line; he said in an interview that he decided that he would never sell his horses.

But, he told Humans of Bombay, he was forced to make the difficult decision of selling one horse to care for the others. “Many times, I’ve had zero money, and I didn’t know what I would do next. There were times when I sold everything in my house, my car, my microwave, everything. But I never sold my horses, because there is an Arabic saying, ‘Tankhwa badhao, kharcha kam karne se kuch nahi hoga (Increase your income, by reducing spending you’re achieving nothing)’.”

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He continued, “Once, I sold my horse Ranji, who was really old; I just got him operated again. There was a whole thing of putting him down, and I was like, ‘Hey, he’s still so spirited, he still bites the other horses and me’. But I sold him at that time for a dear some of money, and I felt that I could look after my other horses and myself with that money. He was put in the truck, I got the cheque, he was being taken away from the race course. But I just couldn’t take it. I stopped the truck, fought with them, got my horse back.”

He said that he got the ‘mental stamina’ to persevere because he had no other options. “I’d been better off at any stage of that downer struggle more than I was when I came here,” he said, putting his story into perspective. Randeep is now gearing up for the release of Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, a biopic of Hindu nationalist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, which also serves as his directorial debut.

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