Avasarala Srinivas shares how he 'fired' his boss.

Writer, director and actor ' Avasarala Srinivas has quite the resume. But before he entered showbiz, he was just another engineering graduate, who was working for a living in Missouri, USA. He broke into the industry with the hit, Ashta Chamma, but not many know that he had to quit a full-time job for making it to India for the shoot. quitting a job isn't uncommon, but the way he did it, we assure you, is something.
Recalling how he resigned from his first job like a boss, all for his 'first love', cinema he says, 'Our boss would send us monthly reviews of our work. The first month he left a comment in the review that I come late to work. So I started getting punctual. The second month, he said, I was overusing the office internet. So I stopped checking out Tollywood websites using the office internet. I used my own instead. Next, he complained that my handwriting was illegible ' that he had to write notes on the side of the page to understand my handwriting.' Admittedly, Avasarala did all he could to stop the complaints from coming: 'I was the only Indian at that place and anything I did wrong would reflect badly on the community and the country. I didn't want that,' he says. It's around that time that he got the offer for his first film, Ashta Chamma. 'I asked him for a three-month leave. And he said, 'I'll give you eight days'... I knew right then that I wasn't going back. I remember laughing in my head when my colleagues said, 'see you soon'...' he says. So what happened after eight days? 'Like any boss would, mine too emailed me asking whether I was coming back. I replied to that email with my resignation letter. I still remember the opening line ' 'Since you cannot understand my handwriting, I'm typing out my resignation letter' (laughs) It makes for a great story today, but it wouldn't have been so funny if I had to go to back and hunt for another job,' he says, adding as an afterthought: 'We place too much importance on jobs. It's not the '70s where you have to stick to one job your entire life. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. if your comfort zone isn't so comfortable, then don't hang around.'