Kiara Advani on almost being written off to being called the girl with the 'midas touch': 'You have to be really thick-skinned'

Kiara Advani has opened about going from being almost written off to being called the actress ‘with the middas touch’ in a recent interview. She revealed how she coped with initially box office failures and how those very films got her noticed and furthered her career in Bollywood.

The actress while talking to Bollywood Hungama said that she always believed in giving her best to a project and then letting the film take its journey. Kiara told the portal, “You come as a team player, you put your best foot forward and you let the film then take on its journey, it’s eventually always a director’s vision. And like you said, if you said if my first few films didn’t do well so naturally sometimes people almost write you off in a way. From hearing that to hearing things like, this is the girl with the Midas touch because there was a time from Kabir Singh, Good Newwz there was just blockbuster after blockbuster. It has been a learning curve but every single film has been very important to me, in my learning, in my growth."

Talking about surviving the box office race, Kiara added, “You have to be really thick-skinned in a profession that is so public and a profession that probably rejects and accepts you Friday to Friday. So to know you have to be think skinned, to have that kind of ownership on your craft and know your own worth as an actor, know what you are bringing to the table, it takes time. When your films don’t do well you start questioning yourself, you start having doubts and it’s a very human quality to have these thoughts. You need to know when to shut that off and when to believe in yourself.”

The Kabir Singh actress, who today has a jam packed calendar with some of the biggest films in the making spoke about taking ownership of all of her experiences and how they make her the person she is today. She further told the portal, “Even the films that didn’t do well of mine, were the films that got people to even notice me. I have always said that even though my film hadn’t done well, it was that song, ‘Tu cheez badi hai mast mast’ that we recreated that got me noticed and that’s how I did Lust Stories and then one thing led to another. But every film for me personally and I think for every other actor I believe adds to your journey, your growth as a person both professionally and personally. Today whoever I am, whatever I have achieved for myself, each of those films, be it commercially successful or not they have been instrumental in who I am today.”

Kiara started her Bollywood journey with Fugly in 2014 and later went on to star in M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story with Sushant Singh Rajput. The actress followed up the project with Abbas Mastaan’s Machine which was a commercial disaster but fortunately it got the actress noticed.