25th June 2023,Mumbai: In the 23 years of his career, Abhishek Bachchan has effectively carved himself his own identity in the film industry. Along with taking on challenging tasks, he is skilled at dissuading haters who compare him to his famous father Amitabh Bachchan or wife Aishwarya Rai. After his 2016 film Housefull 3 was released, Abhishek took a sabbatical from acting. He just stated why in a new interview. He claimed he backed out of the films he had already agreed to in order to reconsider his options.
Abhishek had acted in comedies like Happy New Year, The Shaukeens, All Is Well, and Housefull 3 before playing Inspector Jai in Dhoom 3. He then took a hiatus and didn’t come back till Manmarziyaan in 2018, in which he was the second lead.
Abhishek explained the trigger for his break in an interview. “I was quite complacent, he said. I was getting fantastic work and pay, and all the pictures were turning out to be blockbusters. But I was aware that I wasn’t working too hard.”
“You shouldn’t ever imagine that I can sleep-walk through a movie”, he continued. “No, you’re not supposed to drift off during a movie because people are paying good money to see it! You must have sleepless nights. That is the cost of having the talent of an actor, somewhere. You’ve begun your downward trajectory when it ceases having meaning for you and becomes natural to you, and that was the situation I was in.” I therefore said, “Let me stop.” Whenever I signed any unproduced projects at the time, I returned the signing amounts to them. I told them I need to re-evaluate things, I took that time off, I came back and started selecting work which gave me sleepless nights.”
The last time we saw Abhishek, he was a politician imprisoned who continued his studies there. The 2022 movie, Dasvi, stars Nimrat Kaur as the man’s wife. Additionally, he appeared in Breathe: Into The Shadows’ second season last year. Both were made available on OTT services. He had a cameo appearance in the Ajay Devgn-starring film Bhola this year.
R. Balki’s Ghoomer has been shot to completion by Abhishek. Additionally, he is the only actor in the film SSS7, which he also produced. He has also worked on a movie with Remo D’Souza, and he will soon start on Shoojit Sircar’s upcoming project.
-by Kashvi Gala