Durgesh Kumar became a domestic name after the great success of the acclaimed web series, Panchayat. His popularity grew among the audience and people began to identify him as Bhushan from the comedy-drama range. But despite gaining popularity and his video more ideas than Amitabh Bachchan, no major production house is showing him interest in casting. read on!
There was a time when Durgesh Kumar’s face was dropped on the entire internet. This happened when the clip of his character went viral from the panchayat series. People added his dialogues, ‘Dekh Raha Hai Binod’ and ‘Allahua meeting’ to their vocabulary. But despite giving such a commendable performance and getting so much love from the audience, he is not getting cast by large production houses.
In an interview with Mid-Day, Kumar, whose success came with the role of Aadoo in the film highway, expressed his disappointment in the way the film industry works. He told the publication, “I keep working, but no big production house is showing me much interest in casting.”
The actor said that if someone takes a look at Youtube, his video has more views than Amitabh Bachchan. Kumar claimed, “I have more than 5 million; he has 1.5 million,” Kumar claimed that he was proud of the fact and is not telling the fact egoistic.
But despite doing so much work, it surprises him how the industry works. “I trained for 12 years in Delhi Theater, so I do not understand how people are elected,” the missing ladies actor expressed.
Talking about being a part of the popular comedy-drama television series created by viral fever, Kumar said that he worked only 20 days on Panchayat season 2, and his dialogue ‘Dekh Hai Hai Binod’ went viral. His work was highly appreciated and he made some good friends on the show. “Honestly, we were not acting, but living their characters,” said the senior actor.
For unknown, Durgesh Kumar worked in several plays before showing in films like Highway, Sultan, Freaky Ali, Sanju, Dhadak and more. Recently, he was seen in Tumko Meri Kasam, which marks the return of Esha Deol to the silver screen.
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