Pooja Hegde is one of the most popular Tollywood stars. After a super successful stint in the regional South industry, Pooja has made a successful transition to Bollywood with movies like Mohenjodaro and Housefull 4.
As per reports in ETimes, the actress revealed that she was taken aback for a while after her first film didn’t work. She was quoted saying, “It definitely helped me garner people’s attention as it was a massive debut for me with Ashutosh Gowariker and Hrithik Roshan coming back together after ‘Jodhaa Akbar’. I always feel that when you are not a star kid, your first film becomes highly important and the fate of the film becomes even more important. People are watching your film like an audition in a way and judging if you can act or not and how is your screen presence. Based on that, you get the second film. When the film didn’t do well, it pulled me back a little bit, but I didn’t let that stop me from doing my work. I continued pushing forward, working in films down South, then I did ‘Housefull 4’ (with Akshay Kumar), and ‘Cirkus’ (with Ranveer Singh) and now there is ‘Bhaijaan’ (with Salman Khan) coming up. So, my first film helped me in a lot of ways. I am sure if the film had been a massive success, there would have been no turning back (smiles).”
Later, when she was asked if she was disheartened and how she dealt with it, Pooja mentioned, “I was disheartened for sure because from the time that I signed the film and till it released, it had been two years for me in the making. I gave two years of my life, heart, and soul to the movie; I did nothing else but the film. So, when the movie released and my moment didn’t come, it did set me back. But today, I deal with failure very differently. I think it taught me a valuable lesson in a lot of ways. It taught me that nothing is permanent both failure and success. It’s constant self-talk that I have with myself and try not to get too bogged down by failures. I give myself only 15 minutes to cry about it you can do whatever you have to, punch a pillow but after 15 minutes it’s done. That’s something I follow religiously”.
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