Vikrant Massey REVEALS The Reason Behind Quitting Television Industry: 'When Misogynistic Content Worked...'

Vikrant Massey is currently basking under the success of his recently released film 12th Fail. The actor has been getting an overwhelming response from everyone. Right from the audience to celebrities, all are in awe of his performance. The actor who started his acting journey with television show Balika Vadhu has revealed in a recent interview his reason behind leaving television.

During an interview with Samdish on his YouTube channel Unfiltered by Samdish, Vikrant Massey recalled some weird instances that happened on the sets of a television show. He shared, “There were many, which were happening repetitively, which is why I left TV. Universally, everyone was doing the same thing. Be it any field, when a certain thing works, only its versions are then replicated. So on TV when misogynistic content worked, which included bahu pe atyavchaar, there were takers as well so people were making just that for TRP.”

He explained, “On TV, a lot of irritating things would happen, like MBAs calling the shots on stories. They would say, ‘Make only these kinds of episodes for rating, as per our internal research. They really made a fool out of many by saying this ‘internal research’ and asking for a ‘maha episode’, which would be of one hour. After a point, I fought with them and said I won’t do it.”

Adding to this, Vikrant Massey shared further that he felt ‘under-utilized’ as a television actor, “I thought I can do a lot more, but they are not able to utilise me. My contract in Balika Vadhu was just for two months, it was a cameo. But people loved it so much it went on for two years. I did it for that long because I believed in the content I was doing. But after that maza nahi aaya kuch shows mein,” he concluded.

Vikrant Massey is now set to appear in Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba and an untitled web series produced by Rajkumar Hirani. On the personal front, after two years of blissful marriage, Vikrant Massey and Sheetal Thakur have become doting parents to a son. They welcomed their first child on February 7 this year.

The lovebirds met on the sets of ALT Balaji’s web show Broken But Beautiful and soon started dating. It was in 2019 November they got engaged in a private ceremony. The two tied the knot in February last year.