Vipin Sharma, who played the role of Ishaan Awasthi’s father in Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par, recently appeared on Lallantop’s YouTube channel.
Vipin Sharma recalls cutting and cleaning meat for a living despite being a vegetarian: “I had no other prospects and I had no money”
In the podcast, the actor spoke about the tough times he faced before getting major roles and shared stories from when he was struggling in the industry. He had even quit acting and moved to Canada, hoping for a more stable life, but eventually attended an acting workshop that turned things around for him. “After attending the workshop in Canada, I realised that there is nothing else in my life except acting, and I can’t do anything else. So, I threw all my belongings on the street in Toronto and bought a one-way ticket back to India,” he recalled.
Sharma also looked back on his youth and shared why he moved to Canada. He said, “I was a highly dissatisfied person, and I used to argue a lot. I did not like giving a bribe to reserve seats on a train, I did not like the overall surroundings, and I had a lot of anger within me because I used to wonder why our society was like this, and having grown up in a slum made it very difficult. I was a rebellious person, and I once pulled the emergency chain on a train, and I was made to get down at a random station at night. They said, “If you can’t afford 10 rupees for a sleeper berth, then you don’t deserve to travel by the train.”
The actor worked as an assistant chef in several restaurants to support himself and shared a story from one of his jobs in the food industry. “I even worked in an Irish restaurant where I had to cut and clean the raw meat and I am vegetarian. I had no other prospects, and I had no money. So, I remember praying to God and asking whether this is his plan for me. The very next day I landed my first editing job at a big channel in Toronto.”
Vipin Sharma’s filmography includes Taare Zameen par, Special 26, Gangs of Wasseypur, Jannat, Kick and more. His most recent appearance was in the TV series Crime Beat, with Saqib Saleem, Rajesh Tailang, and Rahul Bhat.
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