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Actor Shilpa Shetty’s sister, Shamita Shetty, claimed that she received no preferential treatment despite her connections in the film industry. Instead, she said that good roles eventually dried up for her, and she had to find alternate career options. She took a course in interior design, and wishes to open her own studio one day. In an interview, Shamita said that her sister has never put in a good word for her with producers, and that she had to go through multiple rounds of auditions before she was cast in her debut film Mohabbatein, which also featured Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Aishwarya Rai.
In an interview with Pinkvilla, she was asked about how satisfied she is with her career, and she said that many of her movies were shelved following her big debut. “I had four films that I worked on that didn’t release. After Mohabbatein, I did a film with Sanjay Dutt and Chandrachur Singh; it was made, it was ready, but it didn’t release. There were three other films, one of them was with Madhavan, that didn’t release. My last film, The Tenant, came and went. Maybe luck didn’t favour me in many moments. Having said that, I don’t want to be the kind of person who sits and cribs about what life has given me.”
She said that she has a lot to be grateful for, and that she’s living the life she wanted. “There are a lot of positives as well, and I choose to see that… Today, I have reached the stage where I have to create opportunities for myself. That creative outflow is so important. I have studied interior design, I now paint. Apart from doing events and all of that, I still make it a point to go out there and meet directors, producers, and casting agents.”
Shamita said that she sees no harm in approaching people for work, and to remind them that she’s around and available. She said that she was particularly disappointed when her film The Tenant didn’t work, because she feels that it would’ve shown filmmakers a new side to her. “People still associate me with Zeher and Cash, and these are films that I myself will not say that… There was nothing great that stood out for me. You have to try your best, and that’s what I’m still doing,” she said.
Shamita paid a large sum of money to educate herself in interior design, but she didn’t have a choice when good roles started drying up. “I was just so satisfied, building something from scratch. I’m somebody that believes everything happens at the right moment in your life. Interiors came into my life at the right time, because I was looking for some way to express my creativity. I thought going away would do me some good. It was heartbreaking for me to turn away from something I really love, because I wasn’t getting the right opportunities. I went to summer school in London for about six months. I came back and worked with an architect for about a year,” she said, adding that she subsequently started her own company. But despite this new venture, Shamita admitted that there was ’emptiness’ inside her that she couldn’t ignore. That’s when she took on Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa, and that opened new doors for her.
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