The world of glamour looks starry and glittery from the outside. While we all love witnessing the lavish lifestyle of the actors and all the limelight that comes with it; there is the dark side of fame. A few actors have come forward to speak of grim encounters and dark experiences from the entertainment industry.
“There were a lot of rejections down South. There were a lot of Malayalam films, but I was replaced in each of them. There was a Tamil film I was doing and I was thrown out of the film…I remember my parents had come with me because they were so worried about me…I had really begun to fade. We went to the producer’s office. The producer showed us the clippings from the film and he said, ‘Just look at her, does she look like a heroine. He said ‘I was not in favor of taking her at all, it was the director who insisted,” she said.
“They already had replaced me and my father after knowing that, called up the producer asking if they can meet because he wanted to know what was going wrong. They wanted to know what was the problem,” she added, reports India Today.
Vidya revealed that she has had a difficult time dealing with rejections in the South in the early days of her career.
“I felt ugly…I felt like sh*t for months and I don’t think I looked at myself in the mirror… I didn’t like what I saw because I thought I was ugly…For the longest time, I did not forgive that man, but today, thanks to that I realized that I have to love and accept myself the way I am,” Vidya said.
Sharing another bad experience from her past, Vidya said, “There was another Tamil film that was locked on the phone and it was not organized in the way that they are today…I didn’t know any better so I was like ok and committed to doing the film. I land up in Chennai and I shot with him for a day and really felt uncomfortable with the kind of humor that was in the film. I left the film and then they sent me a legal notice.”
On the work front, Vidya Balan was last seen in Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha starrer Mission Mangal. She was also seen in a number of south Indian films like N.T.R and Nerkonda Paarvai last year.