You would meet people who wouldn’t encourage you, recalls Sidharth Malhotra his struggling days!

Bollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra made his Bollywood debut with Karan Johar's Student Of The Year and since then there has been no looking back for the actor. He has showed his resourcefulness by trying his hands on wide-ranging genres. During a media chat with a leading tabloid, Sidharth disclosed that before SOTY, he was a part of another movie, but it never took off.

“Until I shot for SOTY, I didn’t know what was happening. Earlier, I was a part of a film which I was prepping for, but it never took off. That was my first lesson — you can’t take a confirmation for granted. It took me four years to get another film and I learnt a lot in life [during that period] — from managing my budget for rent to getting a job and moving in the right direction,’’ he told.

Sidharth worked as an assistant director in My Name Is Khan (2010), before he bagged his debut movie as an actor. Speaking about his struggling days in Bollywood, Sidharth revealed, ‘’I was here (in Mumbai) for a year, only doing photo shoots, because it was giving me money to survive. Then when I started assisting in films, the idea of becoming an assistant director seemed like the best [option]. It made me feel like I was not wasting my time and doing something productive.’’

“I felt like more an outsider when I had not joined the industry. There was so much of negativity then. You would meet people who wouldn’t encourage you, would thumb you down. People tell you ‘ki nahi hoga’. [But] Once I got in, people judged me by my work,” he further added.