Ronit Roy says he started a security agency due to hunger and poverty: ‘I was written off by the industry’

Ronit Roy opened up about his career and recalled how work opportunities dried up even after he delivered a box office success with his debut film.

Actor Ronit Roy became a household name with his work in Television serial Kasautii Zindagii Kay. However, things were not as easy for the actor in the industry, and he had to battle alcoholism and poverty early on. In an interview with Podcast Redcarpet, the actor recalled how he even started a security agency when he had no work. (Also read: Ronit Roy gets angry as Swiggy delivery person rides on wrong side of road onto oncoming traffic: I almost killed him)

During the conversation, when Ronit asked what led him to start a security agency, he said it was not because he wanted to diversify his interests. He said, "I am a honest kind of guy, I can only tell you the way it was. It was (the result of) hunger, poverty. Every great step that I have taken in my life has come out of desperation, frustration, and poverty. There was a time when my debut film was a silver jubilee, and after that I didn’t get any work. I have no idea why. I got frustrated. I got no work. I got so scared. I had rent to pay, I had to feed myself. What would you do with no money? So I kind of signed the wrong films, and they flopped. Then I went back to square one and had no work.”

What Ronit said

‘My life went into gutter’