Karan Oberoi on his jail term: Everyone thought I was going to die and won’t survive this ordeal

Karan Oberoi, best known for being a part of Indipop boy band A Band Of Boys and TV show Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, has been away from the public eye for quite some time. “Band Of Boys is coming back with a bang, and we would be releasing a full album that should be out hopefully in a month’s time,” he tells us. Recalling his time in jail, Oberoi says, “I would often ask myself, ‘How did I land up here’, among these hardened criminals, I’ve never even broken a traffic signal, I’m so by the book. What I took solace in was, while I was fighting a very hard battle inside, there were other people who were fighting a bigger battle outside for me because they were connected to my pain.” Acknowledging that he lived in a bubble all his life and that the incident was an eye-opener for him, Oberoi shares that he “didn’t eat and sleep for six-seven days” and thought he was “going to die”. There’s a certain duality in the industry which I think might have led to a situation where a lot of work didn’t come my way, but a lot of sympathy did.” On whether this whole episode changed his perspective towards the #MeToo movement, the actor calls it a “wonderful” movement as it enabled women to come out in open and talk about their sufferings.