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Today, the 31st of August, Rajkummar Rao is celebrating his 37th birthday!
Rao is known for his versatility and in-depth performances but he has also given us one extremely shocking story to remember!
Before becoming the star he is today, Rajkummar was just an ordinary student with a big Bollywood dream. The actor recalls falling in love with a girl when he was in the 11th grade. However, not everything went smoothly for him in the matters of the heart.
Talking about his early life in an interview, he revealed he was a troublemaker who left the notorious ways in college when he got serious about wanting to become an actor.
“I moved to this new, really modern, fancy, Blue Bells school in Gurgaon and I was a big, I’m still a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan. So I saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and I saw this one girl, playing basketball, same hair, and I was like ‘Anjali’. I was like, ‘I found her mother, I found her (imitating Shah Rukh).’ And then somehow, we started dating but she had a boyfriend,” Rao discloses.
What’s more shocking is Rajkummar’s reaction to when he was getting beaten up for dating her. “It was a Jat boy and then, of course, they came to thrash me. Some 25 Jat boys from law college and by that time, I was a saint guy. I was like ‘Now no more fighting, this is enough. I have to be an actor.’ They were thrashing me, 25 boys were like, ‘Take out the gun, take out the gun, shoot him, take out the gun.’ I was sitting like (makes a gesture of being huddled up). My two Punjabi, cute friends were like ‘Don’t hit him, hit me if you want to’. The only thing I was screaming is, and trust me, it’s a true story, ‘Don’t hit my face, I want to be an actor.“
Scary? We think so too! Well as long as our hero is safe and happy now, we let bygones be bygones. Rajkummar has given us blockbusters like Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 2), Shahid, CityLights, Aligarh, Trapped and more.
