A Quote by Sameera Reddy

When I began my career, I used to say I was a Bollywood heroine. — © Sameera Reddy
When I began my career, I used to say I was a Bollywood heroine.

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'Daddy' is an amazing Bollywood debut for me. I don't play a typical Bollywood heroine. It's a performance-oriented role.
I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.
I am not going to disconnect from Bollywood or sacrifice my career in the industry for international projects. Everything began here, and I respect that.
I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
Bollywood is there; the film industry is thriving, and it's huge, and it's everywhere. Anytime I travel abroad and I say I'm an actor from India, they're like, 'Oh, Bollywood!' And I say, 'Umm, not yet!'
Though I used to do a lot of stage shows in my childhood and college, but never thought that it would turn into a career. I had no connection with Bollywood.
I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.
No leading lady in Bollywood has much to do in a film and I am no Kareena Kapoor who will have filmmakers write a 'Heroine' for me.
I realise that there is a certain expectation from a 'typical heroine' in Bollywood. She is expected to be beautiful and have a toned body. And to achieve that, I have literally starved myself.
I used to get upset with the word Bollywood, and what it means in the West. The stereotype of us being dancing, singing, puppet showgirls. Indians are nearly one fifth of the world's population; we have one of the most prolific film industries in the world. When people used to ask me about it, or replicate what they think is Bollywood dancing, thinking that they're being funny, I used to get offended. But now I show them the stuff we do.
People used to think I am wearing turban so maybe I won't act. Then Bollywood happened. So on its own things have happened in my career.
It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
When you hear Bollywood, you think about everything mainstream, song-and-dance, hero-heroine. I don't think that will ever go away.
I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.
People are wrong when they say that there is struggle in Bollywood. That is only when you don't have the talent. If you have talent, Bollywood comes to you.
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