Dulquer Salmaan shared that he initially chose a career other than acting because he was not confident in his acting ability and was also afraid of being compared to his father is Mammootty.

Dulquer Salmaan says he is afraid of not being successful as an actor.

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Dulquer Salmaan, who completed a decade in the entertainment industry this year, worked at a construction company in Dubai before deciding to become an actor. The actor shared that he grew up "petrified" in front of the camera and stage and was very skeptical about his acting ability. He is also afraid of the comparisons that will be made between him and his father, the famous Malayalam actor and filmmaker Mammootty. Read more | Dulquer Salmaan says his first paycheck at age 10 had no 'feminist advantages'. He signed up for a three-month course at the Barry John Acting Studio in Mumbai and then debuted with the TV series. action figure malayalam 2012 Second Show. He has also acted in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.

In a recent conversation with Curly Tales, Dulquer revealed his reasons for working in Dubai at a construction company despite coming from a film family and having a taste for acting. “I thought I wouldn't make it,” he said. Nobody will want to watch me. I thought I couldn't act, I used to be petrified of the stage and the camera. Not for anything, but this constant sort of self-doubt and fear of comparison to my father. So I thought I would steer completely off."

The actor added, "Then I realised I am not happy doing this. I am not an office, 9 to 5 kind of person, it doesn't give me any joy. It's like work. And when I started working in shorts with friends who were trying to get into filmmaking and had no background in filmmaking, I was like 'guys, you have a bit of guts. Why am I so scared? ' So one day I stopped everything, flew to Bombay, to Barry John's. Then it snowed from there. "

Dulquer also recounted that while he was in Mumbai to study at Barry John, he also met some Bollywood casters. However, he developed a terrible eye infection and he had to return to Kochi, and he left the idea of ​​Bollywood. The actor then made his Hindi film debut with the 2018 film Karwaan also starring Mithila Palkar and the late actor Irrfan Khan.