The famed Saathiya actor, Vivek Oberoi, recently admitted that at one point in his career, he had wanted to kill himself and related it to Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case.
He recalled how his wife, Priyanka Alva, helped him get through what may have been the darkest time of his life and how his family had kept him calm.
Vivek Oberoi reportedly entered the Bollywood industry on his own, without the support of his powerful father, Suresh Oberoi, and rose to the top without being arrogant about it. He had declined Abbas Mastan’s offer to be introduced as a star kid so he could prove himself in the business.
As a result, he had to wait outside production companies to get an audition, concealing the fact that he was Suresh Oberoi’s son.
The Yuva star recounted, “After ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’, I received a lot of appreciation and even won awards. Oh my God, this is great! people kept saying, while I sat at home for an entire year and half. Nobody brought movies to me. Everything defied logic. I was delivering as an actor, the box office delivered, but I just had no work”.
He accused a group of influential people of conspiring together to ruin careers and claimed that it had attempted to put obstacles in his way but it is now crumbling.
“It is rupturing. Look at what Sushant Singh Rajput went through or what so many other individuals go through on daily basis. So much ability is wasted because someone made the decision to simply ruin someone for reasons unrelated to their employment,” Vivek Oberoi remarked.
He was last seen in the Dharavi Bank of MX Player — a crime web series that was directed by Samit Kakkad, and co-starred Suniel Shetty and Sonali Kulkarni.
The actor will now appear alongside Sidharth Malhotra in Rohit Shetty’s OTT debut, Indian Police Force, as IGP Rathore.
