Ronit Roy says he started a security agency because of hunger and poverty: 'I was written off by the industry'

02 April 2025 06:16 PM IST Ronit Roy opened over his career and remembers how jobs dried up, even after delivering a success of the box office with his debut film. Actor Ronit Roy has become a household name with his work in television series Kasautii Zindagii Kay. However, things were not so easy for the actor in the industry, and he had to fight alcoholism and poverty early. In an interview with Podcast RedCarpet, the actor remembered how he even started a security agency when he had no work. (Also read: Ronit Roy gets angry as Swiggy delivery person drives on the wrong side of the road on oncoming traffic: I almost killed him) actor Ronit Roy says he started a security agency not to diversify his interests, but to deal with hunger and poverty. What Ronit said during the conversation, when Ronit asked what led him to start a security agency, he said it was not because he wanted to diversify his interests. He said, “I’m an honest kind of man, I can only tell you what it was like. It was (the result of) hungry, poverty. Every wonderful step I have taken in my life came from desperation, frustration and poverty. There was a time when my debut film was a silver jubilee, and after that I didn’t have a job. I didn’t choose. To feed myself. What would you do with no money? “My life went into gutter,” he added: “My alcoholism started out of the frustration. After that, everything went south. My life went into the gutter. Somehow the alcohol would come … I would wake up on the 3 ‘bell and then have a kater, it just made things worse. I was written off by the industry, they said he was done. And that’s where it started. On the work front, Ronit was last seen in Farrey. The Heist -Driller -Film directed by Soumendra Padhi also plays Alizeh Agnihotri, Sahil Mehta, Zeyn Shaw, Prasanna Bisht, Juhi Babbar and Shilpa Shukla. It is an official remake of the 2017 Thai movie bad Genius.