Exclusive: Neha Dhupia is all praises for Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma
In the audio show #NoFilterNeha, celebs spill out many secrets but as Kangana Ranaut has often said that being frank has cost her work, can someone really afford to be brutally honest in the film industry? The host of the show actress Neha Dhupia says, “When a Kangana says it, she means it. When a KRK says something, it’s only for effect and it’s below the belt. It’s a tightrope situation, where you have to put your point across without hurting someone. Being frank is a way to be and for a decade now, we all have been advocating about ‘being yourself’. Today we are targeting body shaming. Five years from now, body shaming will be equivalent to apartheid where if you call someone fat or thin, you will be punished.”
Her show is back with a second season and as she says her “talent to talk” was basis of her becoming a celeb talk show host. “I am a hustler, survivor and patriot. Everyone has an expiry date and before that day comes, you have to get up and do something. My dad taught me that the best part about failing was that you tried. I don’t owe my career to anyone. Just a day before I decided to produce my chat show, I was in doldrums, both professionally and personally. I maybe an obnoxious person and painful to work with but my ability to bounce back is faster than a tennis ball. Nobody will get to know that some incident yesterday broke me. There are so many women around me who inspire me just by the virtue of what they are doing on daily basis. My plan is relevance and survival,” she says.
She at this junction is reminded of how the long journey began. “The first time, I touched make up was in December 1998 when someone told me ‘Gurgaon aa jaao, fashion show hai, karlo. My first job was with Pradeep Sarkar and Shoojit Sircar. My audition was to hang upside down from a tree and Mallika Sherawat had declined it. I said if one could make a living by doing that, that’s the easiest option available. At that age, hanging upside down was important, today producing a show is. Anushka Sharma is doing it all and I respect her so much. I am a big Priyanka Chopra fan who decided to start afresh in a new industry,” she says.
