Zaira Wasim entered Bollywood with Nitesh Tiwari's Dangal in 2017.?
However, it came as a big shocker for everyone when she announced that she would be quitting Bollywood. The news spread like wildfire and people from Bollywood had a lot of opinions on the same.
While many called it a 'great loss', there were many who strongly condemned her decision. After a month of her taking the decision, Dangal director spoke to ETimes,
He had another legit reason to state for Zaira's decision. He said,
¡°In the end, all of us have to be mature enough to realise that everybody has the right to choose his or her life, the way he or she wants to live. And just the way you would not want anybody to question you for your life choices, you should not question her for her life choices. It¡¯s her life and she has every right over it. I hope she finds what she is seeking and I wish her always best of luck for everything she does in her life.¡±
In a detailed post on her Facebook page the 18-year-old cited religious reasons for her decision to quit her promising career in Bollywood.
¡°Five years ago I made a decision that changed my life forever. As I stepped my foot in Bollywood, it opened doors of massive popularity for me. I started to become the prime candidate of public attention, I was projected as the gospel of the idea of success and was often identified as a role model for the youth. However, that¡¯s never something that I set out to do or become, especially with regards to my ideas of success and failure, which I had just started to explore and understand. As I complete 5 years today, I want to confess that I am not truly happy with this identity, that is, my line of work. For a very long time now it has felt like I have struggled to become someone else."
Read Zaira's post here.