Rajkummar Rao is considered to be one of the finest actors in the business today and there has been a long journey behind his current success. He celebrated his 37th birthday on Tuesday and on this ocassion, let's look back to a teenage incident which shows how dedicated Rajkummar was towards becoming an actor.

Apparently, Rajkummar Rao was beaten up by a group of around two dozen boys and only thing he cared about at the moment was his face. He recalled, "I moved to this new, really modern, fancy, Blue Bells school in Gurgaon and I was a big, I'm still a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan. So I saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and I saw this one girl, playing basketball, same hair, and I was like 'Anjali'. I was like, 'I found her mother, I found her (imitating Shah Rukh).' And then somehow, we started dating but she had a boyfriend."

Rajkummar further added, "It was a Jat boy and then, of course, they came to thrash me. Some 25 Jat boys from law college and by that time, I was a saint guy. I was like 'Now no more fighting, this is enough. I have to be an actor.' They were thrashing me, 25 boys were like, 'Take out the gun, take out the gun, shoot him, take out the gun.' I was sitting like (makes a gesture of being huddled up). My two Punjabi, cute friends were like 'Don't hit him, hit me if you want to'. The only thing I was screaming is, and trust me, it's a true story, 'Don't hit my face, I want to be an actor.'"