Anupam Kher Recalls How His Car Was Once Stolen While He Prayed At A Temple: 'Police Couldn't Stop Laughing...'

Having worked in more than 500 films in his career, Anupam Kher is one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. However, there was a time in his career when he was close to bankruptcy. In a latest interview, the actor opened up about how he dealt with the time and also how his car was once stolen from a temple.

Speaking to Shubhankar Mishra on his podcast, Anupam Kher talked about how he was close to bankruptcy in the early 2000s. He mentioned how this situation was made even worse when his car got stolen from outside the Mahalakshmi temple. He recalled how he went to the police station to file a complaint but the officers ‘ended up laughing, as it felt like a situation straight out of a movie.’

Kher said, “I don’t enjoy driving much, but I drove myself to the temple that day. I left the car running and stepped out to pray. Just as I bent down to pray, I saw a thief driving away with my car. I quickly hailed an auto and asked the driver to follow the car, but we couldn’t catch up. So I told him to take me to a police station instead. When I explained to the police how I lost my car, they couldn’t stop laughing. They were rolling on the floor, saying they couldn’t believe something like this could happen in real life. It felt like a scene straight out of a movie to them.”

In the same interview, Kher mentioned how he had a close brush with bankruptcy because he wanted to become a ‘TV tycoon.’ He revealed how his house and office were close to being sold. On the work front, Kher was last seen in The Signature. He is currently gearing up for YRF’s Vijay 69 which will release on Netflix on November 8.