The beautiful actress Rakul Preet Singh who is a known name in both Bollywood and Southern cinema doesn’t belong to a filmy background and during a podcast, she talked about the problems she faced in her initial days because she was an outsider.
She recalled that she was replaced in a Prabhas movie even after shooting for four days, “I was replaced from a film after shooting for four days, before I made my debut. This was a Telugu film with Prabhas. But sometimes, when you don’t know much about the industry or its way of functioning, you don’t take it to your heart. There is a beauty in innocence and naivety. I was so naive, I thought, ‘Oh, ok they have removed me? No problem, maybe this wasn’t meant for me, I will do something else.’ Because I was not corrupted. When people start surrounding you, they tell you that this happened because of that, it poisons you. But I had no one around me. When you are so naive, it helps.”
Rakul Preet Singh said that she was replaced because the producer wanted a famous actress. She stated, “I wasn’t even informed; I had gone to Delhi after wrapping my schedule and learnt about this later. Then that happened again, but I had just signed the film, not begun shooting when I was replaced. Now, when this happened with two big films, a perception starts to form, rumours start to surface where people wonder if you are getting replaced because you have an attitude problem or don’t know acting. I knew I wouldn’t get that first big launch, I had to work my way around. And then, my debut was a small film which became a big hit.”
Rakul also revealed as to why she lost the hit movie, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, “It was the role which eventually Disha Patani played. I had done the costume and script reading, but then their dates shifted by a month, and I was shooting films with Ram Charan and Jr NTR. Bruce Lee: The Fighter was about to release in a month and two songs were yet to be shot. So, I couldn’t adjust the dates at all, and I cried that I missed out on such a good film.”
Rakul Preet is now married to Jackky Bhagnani and recently she celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi with her husband and this one was quite special as it was their first Ganesh Chaturthi after marriage.
