“I don’t know how to make people know my name.” Kriti Sanon shared how she went unnoticed after her first film in this episode of ‘No Filter Neha’.
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00:00There were times when I would be at the airport and someone would just say,
00:03Aarey, woh Tiger Shroff ki film mein aayi thi.
00:04My first Ram show, I messed up the choreography, someone scolded me in front of 50 models,
00:09I came back crying.
00:10While we were getting launched, I was with Tiger.
00:13Now Tiger had separate pressures because people were really looking at him.
00:17You know, like what is he going to do?
00:18Oh my God, he has to live up to the expectations of his dad and blah blah blah.
00:26So your dad is a CA, your mom's a professor,
00:29and you were an engineering graduate.
00:32Now tell me, were they always on board with this decision that
00:35engineering ke baad, you know, you wanted to become an actor?
00:37How did they come around?
00:38Honestly, when I started modelling, firstly, my dad was against modelling.
00:42And why is that?
00:43I mean, he just, he was like, you know, it's going to distract her.
00:47Kya faida hai? She's doing, she's such a studious kid.
00:50I was very, very nerdy.
00:51And then slowly my dad opened up to the idea of it.
00:54Like when he used to see my ads on TV, like he would be the first one to call,
00:57like people in the room that, oh, her ad's coming.
01:00When I started doing TV commercials, I realised that I like being in front of the camera.
01:04I had never ever acted before that.
01:07I used to always be in the dance troupe.
01:08So acting dramatics tha nahi kabhi.
01:11And then when I realised it, and I started dreaming of becoming an actor,
01:15I think they kind of realised that I was sort of thinking.
01:18And then I was like, you know, I want to try for films.
01:20And their point was, you have to complete your B.Tech and get a degree.
01:23We're not letting you go.
01:24A safety blanket.
01:26In that also, I think my mum was very concerned because I was actually a very shy kid.
01:31Extremely shy.
01:32My first photo shoot, my first Ram show, I've come back crying.
01:35So they've both gone really badly.
01:38My first Ram show, I messed up the choreography.
01:40Someone scolded me in front of 50 models.
01:43I came back crying.
01:44My first photo shoot, I was extremely nervous.
01:46And I could sense that I was really not doing a good job.
01:49And I sat in the auto and I came back crying.
01:51And I was like, mom, I don't think I can do this.
01:54And her point was that, you know, people in this industry are very thick-skinned.
01:57Like, really thick-skinned.
01:58And she used to give me examples of Priyanka Chopra and all these, you know.
02:02Look at how confident they are.
02:04You are pretty shy, you know, as a person.
02:06And maybe you can't handle this.
02:07Maybe it's not for you.
02:08And I think somewhere I've, over the time, I've taught myself confidence.
02:13I was not, I had stage fright.
02:14So I think they also probably didn't know that, that I could do it.
02:19But when I said that I really want to do this,
02:21I mean, they did discourage me in the beginning.
02:23But then eventually they were like, okay, you know,
02:25I don't want you to regret later that you could have.
02:28So go for it.
02:29Yeah, I mean, first of all, see how far you've come.
02:31Yeah.
02:32But I had that thing of,
02:33I have to get a good score in GMAT.
02:35So that was always there.
02:36You at some point have said that you got rejected at times for being too beautiful.
02:42No.
02:42Somebody had just said that to me that, you know,
02:44you need to have like some sort of flaws, some quirkiness, something unique to you.
02:50You're very generic beautiful.
02:54So I didn't know if it was a compliment or was it a comment?
02:57Was it a good thing?
02:58Was it a bad thing?
02:59You know, but at the same time,
03:00I was so new here that there were some people around me who were also telling me,
03:04you know, I think you should get this done.
03:06I think you should get like your nose fixed.
03:10I think you should, like, I was hearing a lot of things.
03:12So on one hand, I was hearing generically beautiful.
03:15And on the other hand, there were people telling me,
03:17get your teeth fixed and get this fixed.
03:19So I think it's a lot of noise.
03:21I think you just got to, like, believe in what you believe you are.
03:24You know, that's very important.
03:25When you got your first film and you were launched, you know, opposite a star kid.
03:32And of course, you're a rank outsider.
03:34And you've told us, you know, the number of auditions and all that that you've been through.
03:37Do you think at any level, of course, and I feel it exists,
03:41nepotism does exist, but there's nothing wrong with that.
03:43It doesn't mean that...
03:44It does exist in every field.
03:46And it doesn't also mean that the star kids have it easy.
03:49But do you think at some level, they underplay it?
03:53Do you think your peers who are star kids underplay the fact that it exists?
03:57See, it exists in every field.
03:59I think everyone has their own struggles.
04:01While we were getting launched, I was with Tiger.
04:04Now, Tiger had separate pressures because people were really looking at him.
04:08You know, like, what is he going to do?
04:09Oh, my God, he has to live up to the expectations of his dad and blah, blah, blah.
04:13And he, I remember him being, like, extremely stressed also, you know,
04:16the comparison and all the eyeballs.
04:19I had my own struggles.
04:20For me, I was like, OK, I hope people know my name.
04:23I don't know how to make people know my name.
04:25There were times when I would be at the airport and someone would just say,
04:28Oh, she was in Tiger Shroff's film.
04:34So I think everyone has their own struggles.
04:37For me, I feel like when you don't come from a film background,
04:41it takes way longer for people to register who you are.
04:44I had to make my name be audible, visible
04:48for people to connect my face to my name.
04:50Everything is so uncertain.
04:51You don't have someone backing you.
04:53You don't have like...
04:54That's why I needed GMAT to back me.