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Actor Vicky Kaushal opened up about how the values instilled in him by his parents have shaped his understanding of money and hard work. He said that growing up, his parents never hid their struggles from him and his brother Sunny, which made him value what they had more. In an interview with Film Companion, Vicky also spoke about the hardships that his father, the action director Sham Kaushal, had to face in his career, and revealed that he wasn’t allowed to drive the family’s second car because he hadn’t earned it himself.
Asked if he is more conservative with money because he has seen ‘tough days’ or if he is spendthrift, Vicky said, “One thing that my parents always made sure that me and Sunny both knew the difference between was necessity and luxury. They always said that necessity is something that will be provided to you, but luxury is something you’ll have to earn on your own. That demarcation was always there. When I was in college, when I was an assistant director, we had a second car, but I wasn’t allowed to drive it…”
Being an action director, Vicky said about his father, ‘you also have to be a stuntman before that for 10 years’. And when his father was working as a stuntman, there were hardly any safety precautions on sets, but he went through with it, because he had to put food on the table. “He’s lit himself on fire, he’s fallen off 10-storey buildings, there were no safety measure… He’s done all of that. The other day, he was telling me, the first time he rode a horse, he didn’t know how to. But if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have been paid. He fell, and he fractured his hand. But he didn’t have the money to get it treated because he needed food. So, the bone is still broken.”
Vicky’s father also reminded him that unlike other aspiring actors who come to Mumbai for small towns and have to struggle to pay rent, he had a house to live in and food to eat when he started out in the industry. “You will have to work doubly hard to win that race, because (competitors) are trying to survive, and that instinct is always going to surpass your passion,” Sham Kaushal told him.
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