India, Aug. 24 -- After spending around a decade balancing acting with running Casting Bay, actor Abhishek Banerjee has decided to retire. Only from the casting duties, that is.

In an Instagram post on Monday, the announcement made it clear. Talking to HT City, he says the decision was "difficult". Abhishek and Anmol Ahuja had started the company together a decade back.

"I think it was any which way very difficult for me to handle any kind of company work and administrative work because of my shooting schedules," he says. Casting, he adds, is not something he believes can be done remotely, "I don't believe in doing casting without being in the casting rooms. So for me that was very important."

Banerjee felt he was no longer able to giv...