The comedy TV series ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’ (Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah) has been broadcast since 2008 and is still a favorite of the audience. In this TV series, characters like Jethalal to Bapuji and Babita ji are seen who entertain the audience a lot. Today we will tell you about Dilip Joshi who plays the role of Jethalal in this TV series. According to media reports, Dilip Joshi was not the series creators’ first choice. According to the news, the creators of the series had approached actor Rajpal Yadav for the role of Jethalal.
However, Rajpal Yadav refused to play the role of Jethalal. Why did Rajpal do this? The actor himself gave the answer during an interview. Rajpal wanted the role he would play to be written especially for him, the actor did not want to see himself in a world created by someone else.
However, after Rajpal and some other stars said no, this role came to Dilip Joshi and today Dilip is popular from house to house playing the same character as Jethalal. However, do you know that Dilip Joshi was unemployed for a whole year before the character of Jethalal was offered?
Yes, actually the TV series Dilip was working on had gone off the air, so the actor had no other job. It is said that even Dilip Joshi was so upset at one point that he wanted to leave the field of acting.