Rajeev Khandelwal, who is returning to television with Tum Ho Na, a game show celebrates the “superstars” of every household. The show gives Rajeev the perfect stage to interact with the very people he admires most—the everyday viewers who have made him a household name. Rajeev, who became an overnight TV sensation, after playing the role of Sujal in Kahin Toh Hoga, abruptly decided to quit the show in 2005.Recently, during an interview with ANI, Rajeev Khandelwal spoke about the rumors after he left the show and shared why he made that decision.Rajeev Khandelwal said, “I knew my decision. I don’t have to look back to mull over it. I think it’s for those who had all kinds of versions of why Rajeev had quit. At that time, everyone had a viewpoint like, ‘he had left this because he wanted to do films. He has left it because he thinks it is bigger than his boots’. Everyone had their own version of why I had left.”He added, “Nobody was willing to believe my version, which was the most honest version of why I am quitting that show. Now, when I look back, I think it’s for them, for all those who actually thought that no, no, he is lying. I knew then, and I knew even now, why I had left that show. I think I have given them enough reasons to actually believe that their thinking was very short-sighted and not mine. I think I have proven to them that listen what I had said 20 years ago. I have probably lived my life the way I wanted to live my life.”Further in the interview, Rajeev stated how his decision helped him shape his decisions and turn down temptations, “Quitting really helped me. It helped me shape my decisions in life. It gave me enough courage to say no to a lot of temptations in life. It helped me to believe that there is not just one way of approaching something. There is nothing like there is only one way about a career. In a sense, when you come to my industry (entertainment), there are many people who would actually say that this has to be done. It’s all about the show. It’s a glam world. It’s a show world. Everything has to be showy.”He concluded, “And I said, OK, that’s your version of it. Maybe I’ll create mine, and someday somebody will probably give my example to those who want to step in. There are many ways of doing it. So you create your own approach to it, and I created my own approach, and I have lived with it.”
