Actor Ronit Roy, who also runs a security agency, has revealed how Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Karan Johar never held back on payments during the pandemic. Ronit said that while others decided to discontinue the services, leaving his employees in an exceedingly lurch, the three transferred the money without even inquiring for bills.
Speaking to radio host Siddharth Kannan, Ronit said that ‘it’s a part of the business’ that individuals will stop paying for services they not need and he doesn’t feel bad about it. However, he did praise two actors and a filmmaker for supporting him.
“So, Mr Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Karan Johar. They never even called me. Actually, i used to be doubtful that each one of this can be shut, all the boys are reception. Their office called me that we’ve done the transfer, but send us the bills when things open again. I didn’t ask them to try and do it, but they did it. My wife and that i had a conversation… that point we failed to know the way long it’ll go on…I asked her what will we do? We decided that because I had 100-something employees on my payroll–someone’s mother was ill, someone’s father was ailing, someone’s wife was pregnant, someone had a baby a month ago and another person had to pay EMIs of their house– that we are going to cross that bridge after we get thereto. we’d like to sustain these people,” he said.
He said he drew funds from the savings he had revamped time, sold his equities and shares for his employees. He added that some people even held back on paying him for the work he had already done. Meanwhile, a number of his friends also read the article about his status and offered to assist him out.
Ronit’s wife and ‘guru’ also assured him that he was doing the proper thing by taking care of his employees. He could always buyback the items he had sold but ‘cannot put a tag on the great wishes’ that his employees would have for him.
The actor added that he, too, had personal expenses and EMIs to pay but failed to take the 3-month waiver that the govt. had introduced during the first days of the pandemic, last year.
Ronit are seen next in Voot web series, Candy. He plays an educator on the crime drama, which also stars Richa Chadha.
