"My standards were being lowered continuously." You've seen Ashish Vidyarthi as the bad guy in films like Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai and Bichhoo. But do you know how he reached here?
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00:00I wanted to play a good role.
00:02But I realized that I can't live without money.
00:05I literally had no work in Hindi.
00:12My fate was such that I didn't choose anything.
00:15Whatever came to me, I did it.
00:17It was very clear to me that I have to take care of my parents,
00:21I have to take care of my family.
00:23I was the only child of my parents.
00:26I was old and my parents had retired.
00:30I had a clear choice in front of me.
00:33I wanted to play a good role.
00:36I really wanted to play a good role.
00:38I was very hungry.
00:39I played a good role.
00:41There were many good roles.
00:50But I realized that I can't live without money.
00:53At that time, I had to choose.
00:57I was either waiting for my parents to say,
01:01Aashish is waiting for a good role.
01:04He will play a good role only when he plays a good role.
01:07Until then, we will somehow live our lives.
01:10But that was not acceptable to me.
01:13So I told myself, Aashish,
01:15the world will say that you are sold.
01:17But tell me the truth.
01:19Do you want to take care of your parents?
01:23Or are you committed only to your passion?
01:26It was a very painful call for a day.
01:29That's why I did a lot of work in commercial mainstream cinema.
01:33If I tell you that I earned money and went home,
01:36that didn't happen.
01:38I was not a very good negotiator for my money.
01:41So I was living in a rented house.
01:43When I decided to work in Dakshin in 1999.
01:46In that period in my life,
01:481999 onwards,
01:50when I literally had no work in Hindi.
01:53When I started saying that I cannot continue to do
01:56a lowering standards of my work.
01:59I am a good actor.
02:01But my standards were being lowered
02:03continuously by the work that I was being offered.
02:05And it was very painful Faridun.
02:07It was very painful.
02:09Then I started again in Dakshin in 1999.
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