Abhishek Kumar: Life beyond reality TV

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From working as a background dancer in films to becoming the runner-up on "Bigg Boss 17", Abhishek Kumar did it all. This is his journey to fame.  : COLORS TV, JioCinema.

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00:00I have my nature, but I'm not proud of it at all.

00:21I started working in a crowd in Chandigarh.

00:25I worked in a crowd of 300-400 music videos.

00:30Then I started going to the movies as a crowd.

00:32So I worked in a lot of Punjabi movies.

00:34Bollywood's Humpty Sharma's Dulhania Udta, Punjab.

00:37I worked in a crowd in all these movies.

00:44There are choreographers in music videos who tell the models

00:47that you have to walk like this, come back like this,

00:49smile here, stop here, all this.

00:51So I said, man, this is easy, I can do it too.

00:54I have started teaching, so I know how to do it.

01:01I was very thin, I was a kid, I was small.

01:04They told me to gain weight, so I started working in the gym.

01:08So I started doing a part-time job in the gym.

01:10They used to give me Rs. 4000, plus they used to work out with me.

01:14I got a job in a music video.

01:31When I came to Bombay for the first time,

01:33the person I wanted to live with didn't pick up the phone.

01:36And I kept calling him on the phone, and I started crying.

01:40I couldn't even tell my family that I had run away from home.

01:43So I spent two nights like this, sitting here and there,

01:46sometimes sleeping somewhere,

01:49normally sitting on the footpath, lying down and sleeping.

01:53And then I came to Bombay.

01:56So I came here for an audition,

01:59and I met a B.A. here.

02:03He tried to do something with me.

02:07And then I got scared of him.

02:09And when I came to the Bombay house,

02:11I saw that there was a B.A.

02:13And I was scared of him.

02:15So I went to the Bombay house,

02:17and I saw that there was a B.A.

02:19And I saw that there was a B.A.

02:21So I got scared of him.

02:23And when I came to the Bombay house,

02:25I saw that he couldn't do it.

02:28So I called my mom and told her that I was coming home.

02:52I used to get up late in the morning in Bombay

02:55so that I could skip breakfast

02:57and eat lunch.

02:59And in the afternoon, I used to order

03:01one chana masala and two-three rotis.

03:03And I used to save the chana masala.

03:05And in the evening, I used to eat three rotis,

03:07three rotis for twenty rupees.

03:09In one house, in one R.K.,

03:11there were seven of us.

03:13My mattress used to be half outside the gate.

03:22I got a DM from Sargun Ma'am on Instagram.

03:24And I was so happy

03:26that Sargun Ma'am, who is such a big Punjabi superstar,

03:29and then she said,

03:31we want to take you on a show.

03:33You will audition. I auditioned.

03:35She liked the audition.

03:37I will always feel regretful

03:39for the things that were

03:41personally in front of me.

03:43I am just like this.

03:45I am just like this.

03:47I am just like this.

03:49You know everything, right?

03:51You won't say anything now.

03:53If someone is jealous of me,

03:55I will make him jealous twice.

03:57Because if you are jealous of me,

03:59I will make you jealous twice.

04:01I will make you jealous twice.

04:03I will make you jealous twice.

04:05If you are jealous of me,

04:07I will make you jealous twice.

04:27My good qualities,

04:29my good qualities,

04:31people saw them after a while.

04:33But I have always been a good person.

04:35A few things went wrong,

04:37but that doesn't mean I am a bad person.

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