Actress Ameesha Patel made her big Bollywood debut with Hrithik Roshan in 2000 with Rakesh Roshan’s mega-hit Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai has opened up about how her contemporaries Kareena Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Esha Deol, and others who were from “third-generation film families” could not handle her success. In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, Ameesha revealed that she was called a “snob” because she stayed away from bitching about others on set. She said, “When I entered the film industry, I only had film actors’ kids or producers.
Tushar Kapoor, Esha Deol, Fardeen Khan, you name it, you turn your head and it was a film family third-generation person coming in. I was the outsider and I was any way this south Bombay (girl) looked upon as a snob because I was the educated outsider. I was the one who did not b*tch on sets, I read books, I did not gossip, so I was anyway called a snob because I chose to read.”Ameesha then revealed that her contemporaries could not handle her success post-Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000), Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and Pawan Kalyan’s Telugu film Badri (2000).
On this, Ameesha Patel said, “Then seeing success after success, seeing Hrithik and me becoming the heartthrob of the nation overnight and then Gadar coming in and then Badri coming in… whether it is Telugu, Tamil or Hindi cinema. God was kind, he knew I didn’t have a godfather so he gave me successful films but my contemporaries could not handle that. There was a lot of jealousy. There was a lot of cutting you off from films which I did not realize at that time.
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