"I Advice Not to Completely Depend on YouTube at This Point of Time" - Rajesh Khanna

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1. Tell us about your background and journey.

I am a Btech Mechanical engineer graduate. I have been passionate about acting and cinema from childhood. I used to participate more in cultural activites. But never got a chance to deviate from academics. 

Placed in a well known corporate company after college but felt something is lacking in life. I didn’t even get time to explore my acting due to busy office life. 

It is then I felt maybe this is not the life I dreamt. Immediately I resigned my job and joined a theatre group Nishumbitalater joined Chaibisket as an article writer.


2. When did you decide to be a YouTuber?

I never had a thought of becoming a Youtuber. I just want to act… act… act… irrespective of platform. Since I started my artist career in Chaibisket which is the most happening youtube channel in Telugu. 

I decided to grab the chance of showcasing my acting skill through Youtube. So I can say I am an accidental Youtuber :p


3. What made you start your own channel and what is it about?
Firstly, Krazy Khanna is not my own channel. It is a subchannel of Chaibisket. I am face of the channel. In the beginning I have done some video memes and a facebook mini series about IPL, supporting SRH. 

Our bosses Anurag and Sharath liked my work and given me a separate channel. It is generally about funny incidents which we face in our lives.


4. What difficulties do you face being a YouTuber?

Being a Youtuber, we don’t have the freedom to do whichever subject we want since views play a major role. The actual plan was to make videos of various genres and make my youtube channel as my acting portfolio. But since most of people love comedy we should stick to comedy genre.


5. How do you react to the comments you get on your video?

Reacting to comments is the most trickiest thing. First of all we should have enough judgement to know the difference between constructive criticism and intentional criticism. 

If latter one is the case I straightaway ignore them. In case of constructive criticism I will accept it and try not to repeat it. Mostly I get criticised for not releasing videos regularly and that is because I do movies and web series in between.


6. Is YouTube a financially stable career?

Frankly i think “NO”. In case If you have any other options as main career, you can keep this as a subcareer. But I advice not to completely depend on Youtube at this point of time.


7. Which is your favourite video on your channel?

My favourite video is “RAYALASEEMA” in Chaibisket channel and “One side lover’s breakup” in Krazy Khanna channel.


8. What advice would you give to the aspiring Youtubers?

Use Youtube as a platform to showcase your talent. It is the best way to show people what you can do with minimum efforts. Try making experiments both acting-wise and concepts wise in between whenever possible. All the best!


- Rajesh Khanna, Youtuber

- Interviewed by K.Anusree

- Edited by Shilpy Sharan