Sharib Hashmi may have broken out with his role of top spy Srikant Tiwari’s sidekick JK Talpade in Raj & DK’s popular espionage thriller show The Family Man on Amazon Prime Video  in 2020, but not many are aware of the long 15-year struggle that he put in to get there. Working at MTV in the early 2000s for a monthly pay of Rs 25,000, Sharib decided to quit the job and pursue his dream of becoming an actor just five years into his marriage. “It was a very difficult decision,” recalled Sharib in an interview with Hauterrfly. He admitted he couldn’t have pulled it off without the consent and support of his wife, Nasreen Hashmi, with whom he’d tied the knot in 2003. They had already become parents when he chose to take the road less travelled. “If she’d said no, I’d have continued to lead my life like that, where there’d be nothing else besides work,” added Sharib, who had also bought a house in Mumbai on loan around the same time. “But I was so confident of his talent. And he did work very hard.…