Struggling Rahul Roy forced his way back into cinema with Agra after Bollywood stopped calling
Last week, Rahul Roy had to issue an explanation about his financial state after rumours doing the rounds online that the actor, once a 1990s heartthrob, has been abandoned by family and is out of work that he’s had to collaborate with unknown social media influencers to earn his livelihood. He admitted that he kept waiting for work in the Hindi film industry, but took matters into his own hands once nobody showed up knocking on his door. Rahul’s last appearance on the screen was in Kanu Behl’s psychological drama Agra, last year. After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, the film underwent a long and arduous journey to see a theatrical release in India. It’s now streaming on Prime Video India. Kanu, in an exclusive interview with SCREEN, talked about how the unlikely collaboration between him and Rahul took place. “We always knew we probably need some sort of a face in the casting of the seven primary characters. Because none of the others weren’t prominent faces,” said Kanu. Agra starred newcomer …
