Kartik Shetty: Actors face a lot of instability; some don't get paid

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May 30, 2020
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Updated: Oct 24

Updated on: 31 May,2020 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai

Aastha Atray Banan | aastha.banan@mid-day.com

Writer-director Kartik Shetty's first movie deals with an actor whose grandest performance will be his suicide

It was student Arjun Bhardwaj's suicide from a suite at Taj Lands End in 2017, captured on Facebook Live, that first made Kartik Shetty ponder over depression. After Bhardwaj hit national headlines, a friend's sister committed suicide, and Shetty was revisited by thoughts of giving up. "In the entertainment industry, self doubt is a problem. You constantly question yourself. You ask yourself if you are talented, if you are doing the right thing," says Shetty, who worked as part of the creative marketing team at AltBalaji.