Rajesh Kumar, who became famous for playing Rosesh Sarabhai in the show Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, recently shared that he went through a tough time when he chose to become a farmer. The actor revealed that he tried to ask many friends for help; some helped him as clients, but others didn’t respond and ignored his calls. While speaking to Siddharth Kannan, he said, "I had more than Rs 1.
5 crore debt after becoming a farmer. My friends and family invested the entire year in this journey, which was the most difficult phase of my life; I was answerable to the people who had lent money to me: my family, farmers, and my wife." View this post on Instagram A post shared by ZEE5 (@zee5) Rajesh also mentioned that his startup didn’t work out, so he had to sell vegetables to make money.
He remembered setting up a vegetable shop outside his son's school, where his son would ask his teachers to buy vegetables from him. The actor then revealed that he tried for Shark Tank India but was rejected, he mentioned, "I had applied for Shark Tank India. I had cleared two out of three rounds.
You also had to submit your videos, so I thought, I might get a favour because I am a known face. That here is an actor, who is a social entrepreneur talking about agriculture. My presentation was in Kolkata and it was wrapped within a day.
My father paid for the tickets.” Rajesh mentioned that just before he left for Shark Tank, he received a call from the team of Haddi saying that the director and casting .
