Mrunal Thakur Reveals How People Discouraged Her When She Moved From TV To Bollywood!

It is not new for newbies to be exploited in every way, especially in Bollywood. From casting couches to a lower pay scale and sometimes no pay at all, from rejections based on body colour to rejections based on inability to speak in English so on and so forth.

Actress Mrunal Thakur who will be seen in the Nikhil Advani directorial Batla House opposite the original hunk of Bollywood John Abraham recently opened up about something similar that happened to her when she decided to head towards her big Bollywood dream.

Many will know, Mrunal had actually started her career with a television series. And gradually she graduated to becoming a film actress. But this journey surely was no bed of roses! She had to go through numerous rejections, taunts, dissuading talks so on and so forth. While talking exclusively to Desimartini.com Mrunal revealed all about how people from the industry were discouraging towards her when they learnt she had an innate desire to become a filmmaker. Quipped she, “There are so many stereotypes in Bollywood it is almost tiring for her.” 

Mrunal’s first film was the much critically acclaimed Love Sonia wherein she plays the character of a village lass who is a victim of sex trafficking. It was a huge success but Mrunal feels that people kind of took her role and in the process took her for granted. She revealed,. “After Love Sonia when people saw in the role of a village girl, I got so many calls from so many directors and producers who wanted to have me in the same village girl kind of a role. But I turned them down one after the other. If in case I would have said yes to those, today I would have been typecast!”

The actress also said that she was dissuaded from pursuing her dreams and making it in Bollywood. She disclosed, “People from the industry are vicious. When they came to know that I have a television background and I had done a few TV series in the past. They started to look down on me. They said “Arrey tu TV se hai, filom mein tera kuch nahi hone wala” (You have a television background, no one will ever cast you or even want to see you in films)

Well, her statements speak a lot about the mentality about the insiders in Bollywood and it also speaks a lot about the firm mind she as an actor is that she did what she wanted without getting influenced by any kind of negative talks at all. Kuddos to Mrunal!

For more such exclusive scoops from the filmdom keep a close tab on Desimartini.com