Making a mark in the entertainment industry is not an easy task. It requires a lot of hard work, dedication, and sacrifices for an actor to be recognized in Bollywood. Recently, Nimrat Kaur, who established herself as a powerful face with her performance in ‘The Lunchbox’, opened up about her struggling days back in the day.
Coming from an Army background, Nimrat had zero knowledge about the film industry when she first came to Mumbai to pursue acting as a career. Revealing she had ‘multiple breakdowns’ when she moved to the city of dreams, the actor said there were days she would feel lost and would ‘cry for hours’ while speaking to her mother, reports HT.
She was quoted saying,
“There were multiple breakdowns. I had saved up a bit of money from a few odd jobs I did back in Delhi. So it saw me through the first six-seven months. What happened was that I got some photographs but you just don’t know where to go, what to do. Where do you even start?”
Eventually, Nimrat appeared in a few music videos and advertisements before making her debut with ‘Peddlers’ in 2012. The ‘Airlift’ actor further revealed how things were a little scary for her back then. She mentioned how she personally went and gave her pictures to hundreds of agencies.
She added, “I figured that inko jaake photographs de dete hai aur dekhte hai ki kya hota hai (Let me give my pictures to them and see what happens).”
“I gave my pictures to hundreds of agencies and banners; I would go physically. I marked out areas, traveled by trains or buses and autos. I couldn’t afford cabs at that time. Everything was so expensive. Mobile phones, calls were so costly. So I used to go to a PCO and call mom, cry for hours and be so sad about things. It was pretty daunting and scary.”
She felt immense gratitude for the opportunity to have worked with the late actor Irrfan Khan. And even reminisced about the overnight success she received because of ‘The Lunchbox’. Nimrit’s story proves beyond doubt that for the world, what might seem like an ‘overnight’ success is actually years of dedication and hard work.