"Most embarrassing thing I've done." Rahul Dravid shared the story behind his rowdy avatar in a viral CRED advertisement. 🏏
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00:00It's probably one of the most embarrassing things I've done.
00:02Come man! Come! You come!
00:03Someone like me to stand in the middle of that road and just keep screaming and shouting
00:07was really embarrassing.
00:09I'm the goon of Goondanagar!
00:35How did my life change?
00:37Yeah, certainly there are people who look at me very differently at times now.
00:44Thinking, when is this guy going to explode?
00:49It's been a really good positive response.
00:51I must say that when I think Kunal told me about it.
00:55He told me I think almost a year before I actually did the ad.
00:58You know, we have this really interesting idea and it'll only go with you.
01:03And I don't know, I think that first year I wasn't available or I think I was traveling or something happened
01:07and we eventually got the ad done and I, you know, did the ad.
01:11And it's probably one of the most embarrassing things I've done.
01:13Sitting in, standing in Bombay in front of, you know, the street.
01:18Even though it's, you know, it's an ad shoot and you know there are people around you who are semi-actors or whatever they are.
01:25But it's still, I think, so someone like me to stand in the middle of that road and just keep screaming and shouting
01:30was really embarrassing. But yeah, I think it's something that's, you know, I think I wasn't very sure about the reaction.
01:39But I think it's been really well received. It's been really positive.
01:43Except for my mom. I think my mom is still not really convinced about it.
01:48I think she still believes that I shouldn't have been smashing that, the glass.
01:54So, yeah, she's like, you really think this is your mom?
01:59Hopefully, your kids will be more scared of you that there is a version of you that can come like this.
02:03Has that held or? Not really, unfortunately.
02:12Rahul, are you on any social media? No, no, I'm not yet. Just stay away from it.
02:16What's the reason you have stayed away from it? You must have considered it.
02:19No, I mean, no, I just, I have grew up with it, you know, I've just not grown up with it.
02:24I just, I don't want to be, I don't want to be on it. Your contemporaries are on social media.
02:29Yeah, I know. I just, I just don't, I don't know. I just don't see the need for it.
02:33I don't like staring at my screen too much. I don't really have a good answer to this one.
02:37But I, I just have never felt the need. I don't, you know, I mean, I'd rather, like I said, spend my time doing something different.
02:45Social media comes with the good and the bad, you know, and I think when you expose yourself to that level of social media,
02:51especially what, you know, in a public profession and everything is scrutinized and all good days and bad days are out there for people to see,
03:01you need to have a very thick skin. You know, I think you need to be able to be someone who can, can sort of shrug off a lot of abuse or get, you know,
03:12questioned for a lot of things or irrationally sort of, you know, abused and be okay with it, I guess.
03:20And, and, and then love the praise, you know. So, it's like someone said, you know, you should have that ability to forget all the criticism that you've received and remember the praise.
03:31If someone's figured out that formula, please teach me. You know, it's, I'm honest about it.
03:37You know, I just don't think I want to deal with, you know, I wouldn't be able to deal with people, just random people questioning me and saying random stuff about you.
03:46You know, I just, it would just affect me mentally and then why do that? Why get into that space and why worry about that?