EXCLUSIVE: Abhishek Banerjee feels ‘terrible’ for being rejected to date; says, “There’s no need to create much drama”

Actor Abhishek Banerjee becomes the latest guest to star on Bollywood Bubble’s The Star Cast show. He explains the casting process and the logic behind the ‘Fit & Not Fit’ statement. Moreover, he also shared how he has been facing rejections for 8-9 years and is continuing the same to date. During the candid conversation with us, Banerjee revealed that he doesn’t take it to heart and feels he is okay when someone rejects him.

Abhishek Banerjee on facing rejections

“I think I don’t have a problem with rejections. When someone rejects me as an actor, I say, ‘No problem, it’s okay.’ I don’t take it to heart. It might be that one day I’ll take it to heart, feel sad one night, but the next day I move on. It’s a part and parcel of life, and that’s how I treat others too. It’s not a big problem for me to say ‘no’ to them. I feel very good when I say ‘yes’ to them, but it’s okay for me to say ‘no’ to them as well. That’s my job,” Banerjee said.

When asked if someone told you that you don’t fit the role, he said, “Yeah, a lot of times. I have had rejections for the past 8-9 years. In fact, I have faced rejections to date. It’s common.” He was asked how he deals with rejections. To which, Abhishek said, “I feel terrible, I feel very bad, I feel very sad, but then I move on because I have to. There is no other option. That’s how life is“

Shares how he deals with them and how one needs to work hard

The Vedaa actor continued, “So, I think there’s no need to create much drama now. It happens to everyone. You see in all the interviews that an actor will say that they didn’t even have money for food and were dipping biscuits in tea, sitting with four others. This is bound to happen, right? Our country is poor, what can we do? We are living in a developing country, not a developed nation. The government is not taking care of us; we have to take care of ourselves. Given the way things work in our country, this is how it is. Even after us, there will be many generations who will experience the same things. Maybe at some point, we’ll become a developed nation, and we won’t have these basic problems. But for now, we do.“

“Our grandfathers used to roam around wearing dhotis; the suited grandfathers were rare. That’s the point, isn’t it? When we are coming from this culture, initially, addresses weren’t even noted down during elections. People would say, ‘Oh, so-and-so lives behind that tree.’ This is what happened in our first elections. This is how voter ID cards were made. We were just a new nation. What do we expect? And we have to understand that. So the dream thing doesn’t work for me. I don’t feel like this is a dream city, it’s a hardworking city and people have come here to do hard work,” he shared.

Watch the full interview here

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