Rahul Bhat on quitting television at his peak, long gap between Ugly and Kennedy: ‘When I was a bad actor I was a star’

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Rahul Bhat is back to the big screen with Anurag Kashyaps upcoming directorial Kennedy, also starring Sunny Leone..

Rahul earlier worked with Kashyap in the critically-acclaimed Ugly (2013)..

Rahul, talks about his journey from being a TV star after Heena and regretting leaving television, producing television shows to sustain himself and coming back stronger as he sees a ray of light for an actor like him in the time of OTT...

At the time we were doing Ugly, I got a lot of film offers but I was not really happy with the kind of work coming my way..

I knew that the television scene in India that time was not really great for actors who think like me, so I consciously took a step back, I was getting bored in Heena by the end of it, doing the same thing again and again, thats not something I wanted to do, so I started producing for three- four years but later on I got bored of that too..

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