After years of supporting roles, Rahul Bhat finally had a release as a leading man with Kennedy. The film was stuck for release for three years, but the wait didn't bother Rahul Bhat as he is used to being patient.
Right after making his film debut in 2003, the actor took a decade-long break from acting, and he opens up on what he did during that time. He credits the break for his Cannes moment, saying, 'If I would not have taken that break and I would not have prepared, I don't think I would have seen the staircase of Cannes.'
Rahul Bhat believes that an actor's preparation is key to success. He says, 'Majority of an actor's time should go in preparing themselves, reading history and literature.' He adds, 'When I was doing (the daily soap) Heena every day, I could have done 100 more shows. I was being offered every other show in the country that time.'
It was eventually filmmaker-actor Anurag Kashyap who called him and gave him the 2013 film Ugly to make his return. Rahul says, 'The phone was always ringing for me. It never stopped but the right call was not coming, which I wanted.'
