Actor Karan Tacker was running his family business before financial trouble aided his move towards the direction of acting.
Karan Tacker, who was recently appreciated for his performance in ‘Khakhee: The Bihar Chapter’, has been in showbiz for almost 15 years. However, as per him, his career was not always stable. In fact, before becoming an actor, he ran his family business, which was affected by the 2008 recession.
The ‘Special Ops’ actor said that his family racked up debt after their family business was affected by recession. The 36-year-old mentioned that it is when hestarted looking for jobs to make ends meet.
“I had a business with my dad. The world was hit by recession in 2008, and that’s when my entire business went down. We had a tough time making ends meet as a family. At that time, I started scouting for jobs. From my education I would have probably gotten a job for Rs 25,000, which was little for the kind of debt our business had in the recession,” Karan Tacker told Hindustan Times.
Explaining the nature of his business, Karan added, “I had a couple of (clothing) stores that I shut down. I remember letting go of all my stocks, putting out a sale because I had no place to keep my stock. I had put up a sign saying ‘Buy one get six free’. I had let go of my house too.”
However, he added that joining showbiz was never his plan, but eventually worked out for him. “I started looking for a high paying job. I applied to an airline as a purser, because they used to pay a lakh and a half, monthly. I needed that money to make ends meet at that time. But I got an ad for a face cream brand which paid me a lot of money. I got 3 lakhs, 12 years back. 3 lakhs for 22 days was like… I told my Dad that I should work this out because this will pull us out of misery,” recalled Karan.