Actor Shilpa Shirodkar has recalled how Anil Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty helped her discover work throughout the Nineteen Nineties. In a brand new interview, Shilpa mentioned that she obtained a job in a Telugu movie after Anil Kapoor carried her picture album to indicate the producer and director. She additionally heaped praises on Mithun for giving her the film Bhrashtachar when the movie business wrote her off ‘as a jinx’. (Also Read | Shilpa Shirodkar reveals why she lost Chaiyya Chaiyaa to Malaika Arora)
Shilpa made her debut with Ramesh Sippy’s film Bhrashtachar (1989), with Mithun Chakraborty and Rekha. She featured opposite Anil Kapoor in the hit 1990 film Kishen Kanhaiya.
In an interview with Times of India, Shilpa said, “It would be unfair if I took just one or two names. The entire industry, my co-actors, my directors, my producers, my crew and my lovely technicians all of them played an important role in all the work I have done. I remember there was casting of a Telugu film back in the 90s and Anil Kapoor was shooting in Hyderabad, and he actually carried my photo album to show the producer and director and then, even I got the film.”
“Mithun da was the reason I am working in this industry. When I lost out on Souten Ki Beti and Boney Kapoor’s then titled Jungle, the business had wrote me off as a jinx. It was dada who obtained me a job in Bhrashtachar and my journey on this great business started,” she added. Souten Ki Beti (1989), directed by Saawan Kumar, stars Jeetendra, Rekha and Jaya Prada.
Shilpa featured in lots of movies in her over a decade-long profession within the Hindi movie business. The actor starred in Trinetra and Hum (1991), Khuda Gawah (1992), Aankhen (1993), Pehchaan (1993), Gopi Kishan (1994), Bewafa Sanam (1995) and Mrityudand (1997). She determined to give up performing after marriage and her final movie look was within the 2000 movie Gaja Gamini.
Fans noticed Shilpa in a number of serials reminiscent of Ek Mutthi Aasmaan (2013–2014), Silsila Pyaar Ka (2016) and Savitri Devi College & Hospital (2017–2018). Shilpa is the sister of former actor Namrata Shirodkar. She tied the knot with banker Aparesh Ranjit in 2000. They have a daughter Anushka whom they welcomed in December 2003.
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