Aamir Ali opens up about weeping on the streets, being pitied by Bollywood friends for doing TV: ‘I had run out of money’

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He continued, “I’d run out of money. But I didn’t want to do TV because I thought of myself as a movie star… For the first month, my friends from the film industry would pity me. They would ask why I’m doing television, and I would weep in front of them. I was in bad shape. I would cry in front of Sohail Khan, Remo D’Souza, Hansal Mehta…” Aamir admitted that during his first week shooting for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, he wasn’t invested in the work at all. But everything changed when his co-star, Vivek Mushran, gave him a pep-talk about embracing his reality and making the most of it. Vivek reminded Aamir that he, too, was once in the films, but was now doing a supporting role on TV.

“I would cry on the streets, in the gym, everywhere. I was so upset about having to do TV. I don’t know if anybody else remembers, but I remember. Sohail Khan was my co-star at the time, even he asked me what I was doing with myself. I laugh about it now, but I can’t even tell you what I was going through back then,” he said. Aamir eventually rose to fame on television, establishing himself as one of the industry’s top stars. He was most recently seen in the Hotstar series Lootere.