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‘Hide your marriage is stupid advice’
An actor’s marital status more often than not decides the kind of roles they would get in mainstream Hindi cinema. Pizza (2012) and Gurgaon (2017) actor Akshay Oberoi, who has been married for close to eight years now, has never hidden it from anyone. But he was advised to do it initially.
“Many people have given me that advice, and that’s the stupidest thing on the planet. There is no hard and fast rule to anything. We have seen in our business — you try to be formulaic, it doesn’t work,” says Akshay, adding, “There was no reason for me to hide anything. I was first asked about my marriage four years ago, and I had replied in the affirmative. I have been honest about it.”
He adds that it all depends on the person’s popularity. “It’s about how popular you are. The more popular you are, the more people want to know who you are dating or sleeping with. It’s not a question I get asked [often], I am asked about my work. There hasn’t been any reason to hide it. It’s the stupidest advice. Young actors shouldn’t follow conventions, or else you will never survive in this business,” he says.
Akshay’s wife, Jyothi, he shares, “is a consultant. I think it was a struggle at first, since there was no work at the start of my career. She was my only support, and she told me ‘I believe in you’. Post Pizza, I have been working consistently. With her support and strength I have made it this far. She gets how passionate I am.”