Bobby Deol opens up about insider vs outsider debate, says “Every actor has to struggle every day”

Actor Bobby Deol opens up about his take on insider vs outsider debate. He will be next seen in Netflix’s Class of ’83.

Bobby Deol was one of the popular actor in the 90’s and early 2000s. With successful movies like Barsaat, Badal and Bichoo, the actor went off the radar after a while. In 2013, Bobby’s Yamla Pagla Deewana failure, he was left with no work until Poster Boys in 2017. For four years, he was out of work and sitting at home. Later on, he was seen with Salman Khan in Race 3 and alongside Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh in Housefull 4. Both the movies entered the 100 crores club and Bobby was back again in the game.

Recently, the actor is set to make his debut in OTT platform with Class of ’83, directed by Atul Sabharwal and is produced by Shah Rukh Khan. Bobby will play a role of police officer who is falsely accused and is transferred to police academy as a dean. With ongoing debate on insider vs outsider and nepotism, Bobby was asked about his opinion on it.

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According to Bollywood Hungama, Bobby said, ” There’s no such thing as backing in the industry. Just because my family is from the industry does not mean they have backed me when it comes to work. If that was the case, I would have starred in big films all along. Of course I am very blessed to be Dharmendra’s son, but I only worked with him in the first film, after that, all the offers that I received or all the films that I did were on the basis of my performances. Every actor sees a bad phase; every actor has to struggle every day. Even if you ask Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, or Akshay Kumar, they are also struggling on a daily basis to get the kind of work that they do. This struggle of ours is never ending.”

He further recalled his time when he was out of work, he said, “When you pity yourself, you will start cursing the world around you. That is what happened with me for two-three years. I started pitying myself and though that no one wants to work with me so I relied on alcohol. I started numbing myself and then one day I realised where I was wrong when I saw it in my kids’ eyes that our father stays home all day long. I saw the same emotion in my mother and wife’s eyes too, so something in me changed and I realized that if I want to move forward, I cannot wait for someone else to do it, I will have to walk myself. That is when I started working on myself and I have been so busy in the last two-three years.”

He further talked about being thankful for getting a lead role in his upcoming movie.