Kirti Kulhari Shares The Reason Why 'Pink' Brought Success To Taapsee Pannu And Not Her

Actress Kirti?Kulhari rose to fame with Pink. The actress received a lot of appreciation for her outstanding performance back then. And now she is garnering all the compliments for her recent release film?Blackmail. Kirti plays the role of a woman who has an extramarital affair and she is proud of her choice.

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After Pink, she did few of the films but none received success like Pink. We asked Kirti if she had insecurities about how Pink worked so wonderfully for Taapsee but it didn’t favour her much, she said,

“Of course, people can compare me to Taapsee that things changed for her and it didn’t for me, people can surely have that perception. But honestly, we all have our own journey. Taapsee is a very different girl and has a very different goal in terms of what she wants and I have very different goals. Pink did get me the critical acclaim and box office success, it opened up doors for me in a different way, maybe it did not open in a way like it did for Taapsee, but its ok. I am absolutely ok with things to have happened to me and the game is still on, it’s not like I have given up everything. I will have my share of successes and failures while I am playing the game on my terms and not how people are asking me to.”

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Talking about her insecurities she said, “I sit down and try and understand what that thought means. I do have these moments of insecurities, but I try and get clarity about what matters to me the most and then I continue to do what I am here to do. I don’t let my insecurities affect me and keep going.”

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Kirti is a brilliant actress but she hasn’t got her dues, we asked her whether she ever thought of giving up, “Of course, so many times, I thought of not continuing because things didn’t shape up the way I wanted. But I still couldn’t let go because I love acting, I love the thought that I am acting and that thought is so powerful that it keeps me going.”

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Talking about Kirti’s Blackmail, it’s one of her best performances so far. We quizzed Kirti if she feared of being judged to play a negative character onscreen to which she answered,

"It’s very surprising that the first time I looked at this aspect was when I was at the screening of Blackmail. Someone came to me and said, ‘ It’s very brave of you to take up a role like this’. That’s the first time it occurred me that oh my god this is not how all Bollywood heroines are supposed to be. These are not the kind of roles that Bollywood heroines will take up. I also remember Abhinay (director of Blackmail) mentioning in of his interviews that he took this offer to a bunch of girls from Bollywood and they were not ok to play the role of this girl who is having an extramarital affair, and that’s the reason how I got this film.”

She further added, “But all these thoughts never came to me until people started talking about it because when I read the script all I thought was - it’s an interesting script and character, the fact that the girl is having an extramarital affair and that chaos revolves around the film which got me excited. I got excited that my character is not white and has grey shades.”

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The Pink actress expressed that she wants to play a complete bad girl role, “I would ideally like to be in the space where I will be able to play the entire black character with utmost conviction.”

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We quizzed Kirti if she was trolled for playing the negative role,

“I have had no trolling on my social media accounts for anything that I have done in Blackmail. Yes, I had few comments which said, “You cannot do such film and characters”, but all I had to say was you cannot tell me to play good characters or bad characters. You either like my character or you don’t. You can comment on whether I have done justice to my role or not.”

She further added, “I choose to stay away from trolling and social media world. Honestly, I don’t care about the world. I will always try and do different roles each time. I will not let anyone’s limitation limit me."

Well, let's hope we see her in a variety of roles on the silver screen.