Ileana D’cruz reveals she stopped getting South films after working in Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra’s Barfi: ‘I have not received my due’

Ileana D'cruz opened up about her work not getting noticed in Bollywood and how working in Barfi affected her journey down South.

Ileana D'cruz on not getting due in Bollywood (Photo: Ileana D'cruz / Instagram)

Actress Ileana D’cruz who was last seen in the film Do Aur Do Pyaar is known for giving some notable performances on the big screen. However, her stint in Bollywood seems to have hampered her upward ascent in South cinema. The actress opened up about how she faced a dearth of offers from the South after she went on to star in Anurag Basu’s Barfi alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Ileana also opened up about her craft not getting noticed in the industry.

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In the interview with India Today, Ileana D’cruz shared how that when she did a film in Bollywood people got a misconception that she was not open to working in the South film industry anymore. Explaining this assumption of her ‘shifting’ to Bollywood, Ileana shared, “It wasn’t meant to be a shift. It was me doing a Hindi film because I genuinely loved Barfi as a story. I thought that it was an unusual film, and I didn’t really see myself doing anything like that or having something like that come my way ever again. It was a one-off and I thought it would be stupid to give it up. It wasn’t like ‘Oh, now I am moving my base to Bollywood, and I am never going to do a South Indian film again.’ But I feel that somewhere when I signed up to do Barfi, there was this weird misconception that she’s moving to Bollywood now. She’s not going to be interested in doing South films.'”

Due to this misconception, eventually, Ileane stopped getting offers for South film. “The offers kind of just dwindled away. I didn’t really get many offers at all but yes, it’s true that I did become more selective about the work I want to do after moving to Bollywood,” she shared.

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Ileana said she believes she didn’t get her due credit in the industry. She shared, “I don’t feel like I’ve received my due. I definitely feel that a lot of the work that I’ve done has kind of gone unnoticed. And I don’t know why.”

On the work front, Ileana D’cruz was last seen opposite Pratik Gandhi in Do Aur Do Pyaar. The film also starred Vidya Balan and Sendhil Ramamurthy. In 2023, the actress welcomed her first child and also announced her marriage to beau Michael Dolan.

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