Jitendra Kumar: ‘I am just an actor and not a teacher’ – Exclusive

Jitendra Kumarpopularly known as Dear Brother from his extremely popular show Kota Factory is back with the latest season of the show after a gap of two years. Over the years, Jitu has become one of the most loved teachers on the internet who not only solves physics problems of students, but also guides them with their life problems. Now the actor, in an exclusive interview with ETimes, opened up about if he’s faced a situation when a student has actually come up to him with a physics problem asking him to solve it!

He said, “ Thankfully, till now that no student has come with a physics problem, but yes what happens in their life otherwise ..they approach me with those problems. I get really long text messages, so I have to explain to them that I’m just an actor and not a teacher. But perception wise, I take it as a huge compliment that I played a teacher and they actually consider me a teacher.”
When asked if he can be called the’ Agony Aunt’ of the internet, he said , “ One can say that but I’m not able to give them solutions. I disappoint them a lot by giving them a reality check that I am an actor. I won’t be able to give them all this knowledge. I just tell them to study, maybe things will get better with that.”
Not many know that Jitu is actually a pass out from IIT Kharagpur and fully understands the struggle a student goes while preparing for these competitive exams. He also shared one of the biggest advice he picked up from his teacher while he was preparing for IIT, and said, ‘ “there was my teacher in Kota and this happened a week before the exams and we were under a lot of pressure. So, he wrote 100 names on the board some of them were known , some of them we hadn’t heard of. Then he asked what do you think about all these names? Everyone said, they are big personalities. It was then sir said that none of them is an IITian, so if you don’t get selected, there is no need to worry, life doesn’t end there. One can do things in many ways and you will create opportunities in the future. A lot of people appear for these exams, and the reason for not getting selected is not that you are not sufficient or enough. “
He also stated that this is one teaching he will never forget. The show is slated to drop on Netflix on 20th June.