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Neha Dhupia, who made her Bollywood debut 21 years ago with the 2003 film Qayamat: City Under Threat, recently revealed that she has been “struggling” for the last 22 years to associate herself with interesting films. Calling herself an actress who cannot change math of a project, Neha said she cannot recall when was the last time when she received a Hindi film offer. “I don’t know why my phone doesn’t ring so often”, said the actress.
In a recent interview with Bollywood Hungama, Neha Dhupia opened up about her struggles as an actor. The former Miss Universe contestant said, “I come from a place where I have been struggling for 22 years to associate myself with interesting piece of cinema. Sometimes they do really well at the box office, sometimes you find a smaller audience to watch them. So whether films like Mithya, Ek Chalis Ki Last Local, Phas Gaye Re Obama or A Thursday that was an OTT release. One way or the other there is someone coming and telling, ‘hey, this was great’or ‘we liked you in this’, ‘hey, you were really good in this so why don’t we collaborate and work on something together’. So one way or the other it is very important to put your work out there. Sometimes neither it is great, nor it is fine with the audience, then check yourself.”
The actress, who received a call for her role in Bad Newz during postpartum around pandemic time said, “I was glad my phone rang, but my phone doesn’t ring as much. So, now when you tell me ‘when was the last time you got a film offer?’ I got a film offer from down south, I don’t know too much about how I can go about it, because I don’t know a lot about the industry and I would love to work down south as well. And there were two offers back to back in the past three months.”
She added, “But when was the last time I got a Hindi film offer, I don’t even remember. I don’t know why my phone doesn’t ring that often. I also feel that industry is going through a really hard time so if I will go to knock on doors, which I always do and I feel there is nothing wrong in going out there and asking for work because you are not doing anything wrong. The people who are the ones who provide the work are the people who are struggling as well because they are not able to put down the math. Films have to be made apart from the script, the bigger script is the excel sheet of the money and that mathematics is not working out, so who do you actually go to?”
Neha Dhupia listed herself among the 120 actors, who are not in a place where they can change the math of a film because they are not A-listers.
She said, “We are not the kind of actors who actually change the math of a project. Because we are not big ticket actors. We are the ones who want to go out there and work, charge professional fee and a professional fee is very different from deciding you own market prices. Those are the big numbers. We are not shaking the balance sheet that much.”
She added, “We thought if there are no films, there are at least OTT. But, there are gatekeepers everywhere. Nobody wants to take a chance.”
Neha Dhupia was recently seen in Vicky Kaushal and Triptii Dimri-starrer film Bad Newz, where she playing the role of Triptii’s aunt–Ma Corona. The film is doing well at the box office.
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