With a nearly three-decade-long career, Ajay Devgn has established himself as one of Bollywood's most popular and versatile actors, with a huge fan base that extends across the nation and beyond. Devgn has demonstrated his talent as an actor in a variety of roles over the years. He has received praise from critics for his performances in a variety of roles, including action heroes, romantic leads, humorous roles, and deep character roles. He did, however, at one point wanted to give up acting in films.
Ajay stated at the Critics' Choice Awards in 2023 that he had lost his love for films, which was a unique occasion in his career. The actor said when asked if his desire had ever subsided, “Honestly speaking, there was a point in my life in the 90s… Today we do one film at a time, at that time we used to do 14-15 films at a time. We used to do four shifts, and five to six-hour shifts. We used to go at 7 in the morning for work, shoot till about 12 on one set, and in the same pair of jeans go to the other set. We just used to change the jacket or the shirt and shoot for four-five hours.”
He added, “If you see those films, most of us actors would have the same pair of shoes and jeans in every film because we were too lazy to change them. So that went on. You’re working from 7 in the morning to 3-4 the next morning, and so many times, it was just from one studio to the other. Go there, crash for two hours, and start working again. I just reached a point where I wanted to stop. I wasn’t enjoying my work.”
“That was the point where I felt that I didn't want to work anymore, and I stopped doing this. I started doing two or three films in a year. That was the only phase. Otherwise, I love going to work. If I have nothing to do for two days, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself”, he concluded. He remembered how, at the time, the association enforced the restriction that no performer could have more than 12 films on the floors at once.
