Vikrant Massey started working as an actor when he was still a teenager and for over a decade, he worked primarily in television. Vikrant is now a successful film actor and in a recent interview, when he was asked to speak about his relationship with money, Vikrant shared that once one realises that they can take care of their parents’ medical finances, they feel at ease. He shared that he is in a place where he does not need to depend on a bank or an insurance provider for medical expenses and shared an anecdote where he actually destroyed insurance documents and told his mother to never use them again.
In a chat with Rhea Chakraborty on her YouTube channel, Vikrant was asked about one’s relationship with money, and how it changes after they start making money. “On a serious note, when you realise that medically, you can take care of your parents. No matter what happens… You have secured yourself in all possible ways but sometimes you feel like… we are not dependent on any bank, we don’t need insurance. At least, I am capable enough today that all the people of my house…” he shared.
“And this happened with me once,” he recalled and spoke about an incident when his father had to be taken to a hospital for a heart condition. “I was not in town. My father was admitted to the hospital for his heart condition and Sheetal was there at that time. We were not married and Sheetal had taken my father to Hinduja hospital. As soon as I got out of the elevator, I saw my mother standing in a queue. There were 2-3 people ahead of her and she was standing in a queue with a folder under her arm,” he said.
Vikrant said that upon seeing his mother, he asked her why she was in a queue and when he learnt that she was in a queue for insurance, he immediately tore up all her papers. “I asked her ‘what happened?’ She said ‘I am claiming insurance’. I took that paper and I tore it and ‘I said don’t ever do that. Let’s go’. I mean, that’s also a privilege,” he shared and added that one gains a certain kind of confidence when they make money. “Money gives you confidence. But saying that money is everything, that’s also not true. It’s a Catch-22 situation,” he said.
