[ad_1]
For actor Varun Badola, the news of his Banegi Apni Baat The death of fellow actor Rituraj Singh left him in shock as he says Singh was more than just a colleague to him. “Not even my wife told me the news. She knew Rituraj more than a co-actor. It is shocking, too close to comfort,” says Badola, who received the tragic news a little late while he was traveling.
“I have seen the popularity and stardom of Rituraj. Sometimes when someone leaves, your world suddenly shrinks for unknown reasons,” adds Badola remembering Singh, who died of cardiac arrest on February 20.
Although Badola and Singh appeared on separate issues of the cult ’90s show, he was introduced to Singh after his stint on Banegi Apni Baat.
“Banegi Apni Baat It was a historic show and Rituraj was the hero. We met at the after parties. It was huge at that time. And his stardom was not limited to television. He was a global person, a real cable, one of the most promising actors to enter the industry at that time. He wasn’t just any character actor. He was much older than me,” recalls Badola, 50.
When asked if he learned anything in particular from the late actor, Badola says that sometimes just watching an actor is a huge thing. “By the time we broke the acquaintance label, I had already done popular shows like Koshish Ek Ashaa and Des Mein Nikla Hoga Chand. Rituraj was already a big name, so we were both almost on equal footing,” he explains.
Mail Banegi Apni Baat, the two continued to meet at industry parties, channel celebrations and even when Badola’s wife Rajeshwari Sachdev did an audio play with Singh. “Now we don’t have as many games as we did then. So we never had to work hard to be together. We even had a lot of mutual friends,” Badola tells us, further revealing that she last met Singh at the post-audio party. spot dad at a nightclub in Juhu.
Surprisingly, Singh’s favorite performance of Badola was not from any television show, but from his theater days. “Rituraj was already popular when Shah Rukh Khan joined Barry John’s theater group. He made a play in English titled Lend me a tenor… that for me was his best performance. She was quite flawless and was brilliant in it,” concludes Badola with a note of wish that if she had ever shared the screen with Rituraj, they would have engaged in “many long conversations”.