Varun Badola opens up about near-brush with financial ruin, says he had less than Rs 2 lakh in his bank account and 7 mouths to feed

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Recalling when things became hard, the actor shared, “This one time, I was worried that I wouldn’t get any sort of work again. The industry was changing, and I started wondering what else I could do… I was actually down to one and a half or two months of savings. I would’ve had no more than Rs 2 lakh in my bank account. This was in around 2015. It was me, my wife, our four-year-old child, my parents, and two dogs. It was a family of seven, and most people don’t realise this, but when you have a young child at home, your expenses goes through the roof. And then you add the dogs; it’s very expensive to take care of them. I was almost down to my last penny.”

He said that there came a time when he and his wife drew up a financial plan, and figured out where exactly they can cut down on their expenses. Varun said that had it not been for his wife, he wouldn’t have been able to survive for so long in the film and television industry.

To alleviate some financial pressure, Varun Badola said that he took on subpar work a couple of times. “I did a couple of shows where I would pray that they don’t last for more than a few months. It’s not like I spend lavishly. Yes, I have lavish tastes, but that’s why God created Instagram. So, I decided to do a terrible show just for the money, and every morning I would pray that it gets cancelled after a few months.”

In recent years, Varun has appeared in a handful of roles across film and TV. He was seen in the Netflix series Guns & Gulaabs and Kohrra, and the films Mission Raniganj and Rashmi Rocket.

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