MUMBAI: Popular actor  Pratik Gandhi came into limelight overnight after acting in the hit programme Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. Though his journey to success was filled with hardships as he revealed about his personal hardships before the Scam 1992 rocketed him to prominence.

Pratik revealed in an interview that he had to deal with his wife's illness and father's death in fast succession, and that his family ended up homeless at one time despite having lived in Mumbai for several years.

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Pratik spoke to Bollywood Bubble and shared that he has seen financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble He stated, “But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow. I'm the kind of person, the moment I see issues, I tend to think about the solutions. And that's how my mind is trained.”

Pratik also added, “I guess everybody goes through this. There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018. Buying a house in Mumbai is a big deal.”

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He also mentioned, “ Even after a decade of being in Mumbai, there was a time when we didn't have a house, suddenly the whole family was homeless. You struggle at that time, you manoeuver yourself, your emotions, and the whole family. And when you have a full-fledged family and you decide to quit your stable job and get into something like this, that is another struggle.”

All of this happened "one after the other," he said, but he considers himself fortunate to have accomplished what he has. Pratik will appear in the upcoming film Bhavai, as well as the Amazon miniTV short Shimmy and Disney+ Hotstar's Six Suspects.

CREDIT: Hindustan Times