MUMBAI :According to Rahul Dev, he was one of the highest-paid participants in the history of Salman Khan's reality series Bigg Boss when he competed in Bigg Boss 10. He has frequently remarked that he did the show "despite having worked in 80 films". The actor responds to the question, discusses his most recent work, and recounts the period when he became a very "intrusive parent" after losing his wife to cancer in an exclusive interview.

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In a previous interview, Rahul claimed that he had to participate in Bigg Boss "even after having done 80 films." He took part in Season 10 of Bigg Boss. When asked if he regretted appearing on the Salman Khan reality show, Rahul said, "See, it's not a regret. The thing is, because when we were trained actors, I mean, I trained myself to be acting in the movies. As parts. I didn't train myself to participate as myself in a show. I mean, the training process was to train yourself, and your faculty in such a way that whatever parts are offered to you are done by you. And, here you are participating like yourself. As a real person. I had no formal training in that, and I don't know whether anybody can get formal training. It's an unknown territory. It's dark. It is a difficult process."

He further added, "But there was no work for me when I came back into the business, so there was no choice but to (take up what I was offered). What I've learned is that even a gap of four and a half years is a very long gap. It's a rare blessing, I still am in the business. But along with the blessing, sometimes, there are the peripheries too. And as far as the positive side of things, it eases out my financial situation. So, in hindsight, if I look at the same blessing, then I feel that it eases out my financial situation immediately. In a considerable manner. I mean, you can Google it, and you'll see that I was the highest-paid contestant ever on that show. So, that was a blessing. I didn't know any other job. If I didn't do that, what would I do? So, it was good. That was a learning experience of another kind. So, when I said what I said earlier, it was said in the context that, you know, even 80 films don't save you here. Nobody looks at what you've done in the past because they measure you with what you're doing at the moment. Who are the other people investing in you? It is a fair market, it's a business."

Rahul most recently appeared in the web series The Empire and the Punjabi hit Mastaney. Rahul responded when asked about the novelty of acting in historical dramas, “I find it very fascinating to work on those because it is like revisiting time. I think as human beings we all have personal fantasies. I remember my history teacher, and how she taught us in a very interesting manner back in school. St Columbus when I studied in Delhi.”

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Credit- Hindustan Times