Actress Ileana D’Cruz has made a mark for herself in the Hindi film industry with films like Main Tera Hero and Barfi. However, her performance in Barfi, alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, established her as a household name. One consequence of her success after Barfi was also however that the actress stopped getting work in the South as people assumed that she was not open to working in the South film industry anymore.
Speaking to India Today, Ileana shared, “It wasn’t meant to be a shift. It was me doing a Hindi film because I genuinely loved Barfi as a story. I thought that it was an unusual film, and I didn’t really see myself doing anything like that or having something like that come my way ever again. It was a one-off and I thought it would be stupid to give it up. It wasn’t like ‘Oh, now I am moving my base to Bollywood, and I am never going to do a South Indian film again.’ But I feel that somewhere when I signed up to do Barfi, there was this weird misconception that she’s moving to Bollywood now. She’s not going to be interested in doing South films.”
“The offers kind of just dwindled away. I didn’t really get many offers at all but yes, it’s true that I did become more selective about the work I want to do after moving to Bollywood,” she shared. Ileana also said that she hasn’t received her due credit in the industry yet. She shared, “I don’t feel like I’ve received my due. I definitely feel that a lot of the work that I’ve done has kind of gone unnoticed. And I don’t know why.”
Meanwhile, on the work front, Ileana D’cruz was last seen opposite Pratik Gandhi in Do Aur Do Pyaar. The film also starred Vidya Balan and Sendhil Ramamurthy. In 2023, the actress welcomed her first child, Koa Pheonix, and also recently announced her marriage to her boyfriend Michael Dolan.
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