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“I was confident enough in my craft.” Barun Sobti reveals the challenges he faced that led him to leave the TV industry.

📹: Digital Commentary
Transcript
00:00I'm very aware of the brutal nature of the industry.
00:03I don't do PR.
00:04I keep abusing my agency for Instagram.
00:06Capital, you know, it goes ahead of creativity, right?
00:09Then it becomes a little unsatisfactory.
00:18Does being good-looking help in the industry?
00:21More than being talented?
00:22Why are you asking me?
00:23Because you're a good-looking man.
00:26That's why I'm asking.
00:27It was a joke.
00:29Recently?
00:31I don't know, actually.
00:33Because when you came, that was a time.
00:35At that time, looks were the major thing, right?
00:39At that time, I'm sure.
00:41At that time, I'm sure.
00:43I'm sure, actually.
00:45At that time, people used to talk to each other.
00:48I don't mean the audience.
00:50The people who were making the show used to talk like this.
00:53Yes, this looks good. Take it.
00:55Without testing it.
00:57You know, right now, I think the wave of content is so quality
01:03that the audacious filmmakers, I feel,
01:09don't depend on looks.
01:13In fact, they want to hire even decent-looking people
01:17that are good performers
01:19and make them look the part.
01:21What do you think about silence?
01:23Oh!
01:24Like Airtel underrated?
01:26I've seen it in a lot of movies.
01:28So, there are silences, right?
01:30Listening is important, watching is important,
01:32thinking is also important.
01:34There's so much time when you have to spend in silence.
01:36This was the reason you left TV?
01:38No, it's not like that.
01:40There were silences in TV.
01:42You haven't done TV for a long time, right?
01:44Not for a long time.
01:462014?
01:48No, 2012, I think.
01:502012.
01:52I did a TV show for 3 months in between.
01:55So, my thing was that
01:57it wasn't about TV.
01:59It was just that it is a very capitalistic medium.
02:01Very capitalistic.
02:03Capital goes ahead of creativity,
02:05then it becomes a little unsatisfactory.
02:07And the characters
02:09start over-living their
02:11span.
02:13And the quality of writing goes really down.
02:15Why are you so choosy?
02:17Okay, I'll tell you why.
02:19I think there's some kind of luck
02:21attached to everyone's life.
02:23And if you don't pay attention in life,
02:25you will not learn about your own curve.
02:27So, I've always been a slow beginner
02:29in my life, one.
02:31That's the luck part.
02:33I'll leave it alone, whatever percentage you want to hold it on.
02:35And then there's
02:37one thing I always wanted to
02:39invest in was longevity.
02:41I do not believe
02:43in investing small term.
02:45Small term is always a selfish solution.
02:47And I've always been a family man
02:49and I have a huge family to take care of.
02:52So, if I was doing
02:54or thankfully
02:56I was confident enough
02:58in my craft as well.
03:00So,
03:02and I'm very aware of the brutal
03:04nature of the industry.
03:06I don't do PR, I don't do anything.
03:08Whenever a show comes out, I come to do it.
03:10I keep cursing my agency for Instagram.
03:12You just cannot hide something that's good.
03:14If you're good,
03:16people will see you.
03:18A diamond will come out of the coal.
03:20You can say that, no problem.