The first Asian superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Simu Liu has caught people's fancy already, especially after the release of Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021. He gave his fans a sweet surprise after he performed Bhangra and also sang Tesher's Jalebi Baby, a Punjabi-Englishsong that has gone viral on social media.?
This happened on the stage of Juno Awards in Toronto where Indian origin singer Tesher, whose original name is Hitesh Sharma, was performing. He was later joined by host Simu. As they both shook a leg and crooned the song together, the crowd went berserk. When the video was uploaded on social media, fans were left swooning once again.
Ten years later on April 12, the day this incident had happened,?Simu Liu penned a note revealing the same.
"Ten years ago to the day, I was lead into my managing partner¡¯s office at?Deloitte?and told that they were terminating my employment effective immediately."
He fought back tears of humiliation.??
"Ten years ago I thought my life was over. I had wasted countless time and money that my family had invested in me. Years of schooling, gifted programs, trying to live up to my parents¡¯ expectations. It all came crashing down in an instant."
"I spent four of those years running around like a headless chicken trying to figure out how to break into the industry, struggling with credit card debt and taking any job I could. Another three years were spent trying to break into Hollywood, sinking my precious life savings into something many would call a pipe dream. It¡¯s really only been these past three years that anything I¡¯ve done has begun to bear any fruit."
Simu Liu then thanked his boss and wrote, "To Paul Gibbon and the offices of Deloitte Toronto; sincerely, honestly, THANK YOU. You did for me what I never had the courage to do myself; you destroyed a life that I was building for someone else, so that I could finally begin to build a life for me."