It’s been fifteen years since actor Karan Tacker entered the world of showbiz. While the actor has made a name for himself with his work on TV and OTT platform, he has never spoken about the days when he had to struggle. Not many are aware that before becoming an actor the Mumbai lad wanted to pursue his father’s business.
For the first time, Tacker talks about his life before he became an actor. “I had a business with my dad,” he recalls, adding, “The world hit recession in 2008, and that’s when my entire business went down. We had a tough time making ends meet as a family. At that time I started scouting for jobs. From my education I would have probably gotten a job for twenty five thousand, which was little for the kind of debt our business faced in the recession.”
Tacker, who had clothing stores back then, remembers how the downfall led to many of them shutting down. “I had a couple of (clothing) stores that I shut down. I remember letting go of all my stocks, putting out a sale because I had no place to keep my stock. I had let go of my house. I had put up a sign of ‘Buy one get six free’,” Tacker opens up.
However, since his was a fashion retail, several stylists from TV visited his store and suggested Tacker to test for TV.
“I started looking for a high paying job. I applied to an airline as a purser, because they used to pay a lakh and a half, monthly. I needed that money to make ends meet at that time. But, I got an ad for a face cream brand which paid me a lot of money. I got 3 lakhs, 12 years back. 3 lakhs for 22 days was like… I told my Dad, that I should work this out because this will pull us out of misery,” Tacker reveals.
The Khakee: The Bihar Chapter actor shares he soon started doing advertisements in Gujarat for two to three thousand rupees per day. “For five and six years I was only earning money to pay the debt of the business. After 6 odd years I started making and saving money,” he ends.