Actress Ameesha Patel recently discussed how she managed to succeed in Bollywood without the help of a “godfather,” although most of her peers came from well-known film families. In the hugely successful movie Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000), Ameesha made her acting debut alongside Hrithik Roshan. Ameesha discussed her accomplishment and claimed that her peers found it difficult to handle and that this caused a lot of jealously.
She will next star in Gadar 2.
Before the release of the film, the actor spoke to Bollywood Hungama, “When I entered the film industry, I only had film actors’ kids or producers’ kids enter with me, it was Kareena Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Tushar Kapoor, Esha Deol, Fardeen Khan, you name it, you turn your head and it was a film family third generation person coming in. I was the outsider and I was anyway this south Bombay (girl) looked upon as a snob because I was the educated outsider. I was the one who did not b**** on sets, I read books, I did not gossip, so I was anyway called a snob because I chose to read.”
“Then seeing success after success, seeing Hrithik and me becoming the heartthrob of the nation overnight and then Gadar coming in and then Badri coming in… whether it is Telugu, Tamil or Hindi cinema. God was kind, he knew I didn’t have a godfather so he gave me successful films but my contemporaries could not handle that. There was a lot of jealousy, snatching films from under your nose. There was a lot of cutting you off from films which I did not realise at that time that I have signed my films, blocked my dates but suddenly I am not on that set and a few months later someone else is,” she further added.
