November 11, 2017
Actress Neetu Chandra says that with her potential, she
deserves to be in a film opposite any of the three superstar Khans of Bollywood.
Neetu started her career in Bollywood with the Priyadarshan movie "Garam
Masala". She then featured in films like "Traffic Signal", "Oye Lucky! Lucky
Oye!" and "Rann", and worked with filmmakers like Ram Gopal Varma, Madhur
Bhandarkar and Dibakar Banerjee, to name a few. In the last few years, she has
not appeared in many films.
Asked what went wrong in her career, she says
there are not many offers that came her way and in her personal life, she went
through a tough time.
"I lost my father four years ago. He was suffering
from cancer. So in a way, I was also focusing on my family. I have a production
house and one of our productions 'Mithila Makhaan' even won a National Award. I
have done a Greek film. So yes, I am working towards quality stuff, but
unfortunately, not a lot of offers came my way the way I wanted it to be.
"I surely deserve to be in a Shah Rukh Khan- or a Salman Khan-starrer film.
But my talent has not been utilised in the cinema properly. Since I do not come
from a film family and have no Godfather, of course, my journey is slow, but
steady," Neetu told IANS in a telephonic interview from Los Angeles.
Neetu recently appeared in the music video of "Banjarey", sung by Pakistani
singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
It's interesting that the actress had
entered the entertainment industry with a music video of "Mera babu chhail
chhabila" and also "Sajna hai mujhe".
Asked what made her agree to be
part of a music video again, Neetu said: "Firstly, I loved the song, and Rahat
Fateh Ali Khan is a great singer. After listening to the song for the first
time, I kept it on a loop, and the melody was growing on me.
"It was a
coincidence that Shruti Vora, who directed the video, was the co-director of my
first video 'Mera babu...', where she took my audition and guided me throughout
to act well in the video. I didn't know anything that time because I was as
young as 16 years old. So when I got to know that she will be directing this
one, for me, it was such an exciting moment to collaborate with her.
"I
loved the whole experience of shooting the video."
Neetu feels the
Bollywood world is under a wrong impression that she has shifted to the south
Indian film industry.
"I have done some Tamil films and people started
thinking that I have settled in the south. It is wrong. I know visibility
matters in today's time, especially the way business of cinema is changing.
Earlier, I had no team to present me, to make my work visible to the film
fraternity. Thankfully, now I have one.
"I am open to work with any
filmmaker, anywhere -- be it Bollywood or Hollywood. I just hope the offers come
my way," said the anchor of the musical show "Rangoli" on DD National.
With most youngsters heading towards web shows and satellite channels, when
asked what made her choose a show on Doordarshan, Neetu replied: "I think the
closer to your roots you are, the global you go... Because we, are living in a
global village."