Rohit Roy says he was offered duffel bags full of cash in the 90s, admits his film choices were bad: ‘I started feeling like people will watch whatever I do’

Rohit Roy said that he made some really bad choices during his initial days in showbiz because he had become over confident with his popularity.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | August 3, 2023 07:57 AM IST

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Rohit Roy spoke about his film choices in the 1990s. (Photo: Rohit Roy/Instagram)

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Rohit Roy tasted success when television industry was still on the rise in the 1990s and for many years after that, Rohit started believing that he had the Midas touch and this arrogance, he believes, costed him badly. In a recent interview, Rohit said that his choice of films were bad but because of his popularity he had become over confident and made bad decisions.

Speaking to Siddharth Kannan, the actor said, “At one point, I was more popular than film stars. I think I became too over confident with that.” He recalled his days in the television industry and said, “I was still doing my work sincerely but I started thinking that I have a Midas touch. At that point, I was doing such bad work but it was getting such good TRP, 22, 24, 26. So I started feeling like people will watch whatever I do.”

He added, “My choices of films were crap, the kind of people I decided to work with was crap, the scripts I picked up in the initial days were crap. My choices were crap only because I thought that I’m there in this film and people will come to watch it for me.” He starred in films like Ankhon Mein Tum Ho, Koi Kisise Kum Nahin.

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Rohit Roy recalled that before this, “people were offering me duffel bags full of cash,” but he refused such big money because he was still trying to find work that he was passionate about. “I used to refuse work which was giving me lakhs in the 1990s. People had never heard of such figures in the 90s, and I used to refuse that work,” he said.

“In those days, people would offer me duffel bags full of cash and I would say I am not in the mood, I’m not having fun with this show. I used to say I am not enjoying the pilot only, what will I do next? Such stupid things…” he recalled. He recalled that Shekhar Suman would tell him to do pilots but he argued about the point of doing such things. “Shekhar Suman would often tell me why don’t you do pilots? I said what is the point of doing pilots. He would say, you’ll make a bungalow. But I didn’t do that. In hindsight, I feel like I should have done it,” he shared.

Rohit Roy is currently a participant on Khatron Ke Khiladi 13.

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