When Abhishek saved money to help struggling dad

Abhishek Bachchan

recalled his career beginnings and said that he worked his way up from being a production assistant to starring in major Bollywood movies. After his father,

Amitabh Bachchan

, experienced financial difficulties after the failure of his business, Abhishek dropped out of his American college and returned to India.
In a roundtable interview with Galatta Plus, Abhishek said that he was a runner. He used to make tea on set. His dear friend Sikandar and his father

Gautam Berry

became the CEO, and he said to me, ‘Get on set and start making tea’. I said, Why? He said, ‘Start controlling the amount of sugar they use because the sugar bill is high’. These are the kinds of small things, and he went up from there; he became an AD.
Abhishek also shared an incident when he caught the eye of JP Dutta at an event, who called him in for a meeting a couple of days later. He’d eventually be cast in the film 'Refugee', which featured fellow debutante

Kareena Kapoor

. Abhishek said that Rakeysh Mehra is horrible at narrations, which is why he turned down '

Rang De Basanti

' when he was approached with it. He learned his lesson and agreed to do 'Delhi-6' without reading the script at all.