Bhumika Chawla has been working concurrently in Hindi in addition to regional movie industries, however the actor says, individuals in Bollywood really feel that she has stopped working altogether, and that’s why she hasn’t been getting sufficient work.
“Either I am not a good actor or my PRs are not making enough calls, or they don’t know I am working still. I honestly don’t know,” quips Chawla, whose final movie, Sita Raman was a direct-to-OTT launch. The actor is now busy capturing for a brand new Tamil movie and getting ready for the primary schedule of her unannounced Hindi movie , which is able to go on flooring in January subsequent yr.
Recounting the instances when she had began her appearing journey, Chawla says it was a unique ball recreation altogether. “But now, I don’t know how the industry works. Like if I want to work with someone on a streaming giant, I don’t know how to enter that zone. I could actually put up on my [social media] page and say that, ‘I am looking for work and somebody give me work’, but I don’t know who to approach. May be I should connect with some agency and they can help me get some good work. I still feel like I am beginner, a newcomer, a student,” the actor shares.
Chawla made her Hindi movie debut with Tere Naam (2003) and she or he credit audiences that she has managed to outlive on this business for thus lengthy. “I have spent almost 23 years [in films] and I can give the credit only to God, audience and industry people who have been kind enough to give me work. I still don’t know how the show business works. It’s like a gamble. It’s like, ‘Let’s go on social media, let’s make a few calls, let’s attend a few parties’. You don’t really know what’s going to work,” she tells us.
Sounding content material with how her journey panned out in all these years, Chawla doesn’t thoughts admitting that she is on the lookout for good alternatives. “I am very happy with what I have done so far, but I am still hungry for good work. I still want to work with people who can bring out the best in me. I am not going to sit down and not want to grow – not just in terms of work, but also as a person,” she states.
As somebody who has labored in each Hindi and regional movies, ask her if the strains between North and South are actually blurring, and she or he says, “The divide got blurred ages ago… it’s only being noticed now. I remember how the South films dubbed in Hindi used to run on TV channels, and we all used to watch it. So, people have always loved the content from regional areas. It’s not a new thing. Having said that, with the magnum opus films, the theatrical releases have definitely increased, thereby increasing the viewership in North.”