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There is a thin line between appreciation, which can be instant, and recognition, which lasts a lifetime, and veteran actor Jaya Bachchan understands that. The screen icon said that her body of work may not have always gotten its due recognition, which she has now come to terms with.
Jaya Bachchan, who made her screen debut as an adult with the 1971 drama Guddi, opened up about the low phases of her career in a chat with her granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda for her podcast What The Hell Navya. “When an artiste doesn’t get recognition, it feels really bad,” she said when her granddaughter asked about failures.
“Sometimes, I think we did so much path-breaking, unique, redefining work, but the amount of recognition–not appreciation–one should have gotten, we don’t get that. So, then I assume it’s my fate. I won’t say I never got affected with that. I did feel bad, I felt it was unfair,” she added. Jaya’s daughter Shweta, who was also present during the chat, touched upon her professional failure when her debut book, Paradise Towers, opened to negative reviews in 2018. The impact was so severe that she stopped writing altogether.
“I also had a professional failure. I wrote a book, it’s not like it made it to a bestseller or anything. But I’m not that person who can say, ‘Okay, I’m just going to bounce back up.’ I take it personally. If there are bad reviews, I can’t see it objectively. Like, ‘Okay, someone may not have liked my book.’ It took me a really long time. Like, I just stopped writing. And it made me doubt myself,” she said.
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