By: Entertainment DeskKochi | October 7, 2025 02:25 PM IST 4 min readRajat Bedi discusses his life and career challenges. (Credit: Instagram/@rajatbedi24)Although it’s been almost three decades since he made his acting debut and has shared the screen with numerous A-listers over the years, Rajat Bedi is yet to shake the tag of “struggling actor.” At one point, opportunities dried up so badly for him that he even moved to Canada to find a new livelihood. Nonetheless, Rajat eventually returned to India and appeared in a few regional films before winning hearts with his performance in Aryan Khan’s The Ba***ds of Bollywood.Mentioning that he decided to give up acting and move to Canada because he was unsatisfied with the work he was doing, Rajat said he reached this decision after turning down an offer from Ekta Kapoor to transition into television. “At that time, television was really booming, and I got an offer from Ekta’s company. I had two options: either do Ekta’s show or leave the country and move to Canada. What prompted me to relocate there is also quite interesting. I had a friend who had borrowed money from me. Essentially, all the capital I had was with him. In return, he paid me interest every month so that I was able to run my household, as the film line was very unpredictable. At one point, he went bankrupt and ran away to Canada,” he shared during a conversation with Siddharth Kannan.Also Read | Rajat Bedi recalls losing his father at 9; says no one from film industry supported family except Prakash Mehra: ‘A very unforgiving industry’Revealing that he learned about his friend’s actions after the latter fled the country, Rajat added, “He informed me about all this when I was at a shoot. I only found out about the mess he had created here later. On the one hand, my career was already struggling, and on the other, I had no money to run my household. Then, he started calling me from there, inviting me to Canada with the proposition of working together. I had done two films in Canada — International Khiladi and The Hero: Love Story of a Spy — before that, and I was already in awe of the place. Thus, I decided to move there with my family. My daughter was 6 months old at that time, and my son was five. I left the country in 2007-08, and we started doing real estate business there. In 2009-10, we started developing properties, and the first two projects didn’t sell; we lost everything.”Story continues below this adAlthough they started on an unfortunate note, Rajat revealed that they managed to get back on their feet soon enough. However, their happiness was short-lived, as partnership issues began to arise. “In 2012, we faced a huge setback. There were partnership issues, and the whole company went for a toss. We were in financial turmoil after doing business with around 200 million Canadian dollars. After reaching that scale, we came back down overnight.”Mentioning that he managed to overcome that as well and survive for another five to six years with the help of some friends, he added, “Since I faced significant setbacks and deceit from my previous partner, I found two new ones and resumed real estate business in a grand manner. In 2018, my partners cheated me so badly that we got into a legal battle and had a settlement. The trauma that we faced between 2018 and 2021 was crazy.”Rajat, however, maintained that he never left the film industry entirely. “I had started making films in Canada with my two partners. We opened a company called Dalmore Entertainment. We supported White Hill Productions with films like Punjab 1984, Sardaar Ji 2 and Channa Mereya, among others. We produced Hitler Didi on Zee. I did a few films in the South. I was relevant and was waiting for an opportunity to return to Bollywood.”Click here to follow Screen Digital on YouTube and stay updated with the latest from the world of cinema.© IE Online Media Services Pvt LtdTags:bollywood