Recently Ileana D’Cruz revealed that after she signed Barfi, she lost film offers from the Southern film industry. In the interview with India Today, Ileana said that there was a ‘weird misconception’ that she might not be ‘interested in doing South films’. She had also shared the reasons that made her say yes to Barfi.
Ileana said, “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’.”
She further added, “But I feel 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,”
Ileana D’Cruz when asked about her due in the industry, she said, “definitely feels that a lot of the work that I’ve done has kind of gone unnoticed”.
Anurag Basu’s Barfi (2012) is a rom-com movie. The film also featured Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor. The film was Ileana debut film of Bollywood. The film also starred Saurabh Shukla, Ashish Vidyarthi, Jisshi Sengupta, Roopa Ganguly and Haradhan Bandhopadhyay. The film is set in the 1970’s Darjeeling and Kolkata. The film was based on Barfi (Ranbir) who is a deaf-mute man from Darjeeling and his relationships with Shruti (Ileana) and Priyanka (Jhilmil).
Ileana was recently seen in Do Aur Do Pyaar by Shirsha Guha Thakurta. The film hit the theaters lm April 19. The movie also stars Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi and Sendhil Ramamurthy. She has also starred in Tera Kya Hoga Lovely opposite to Randeep Hooda. It released on March 8. The movie was directed by Balwinder Singh Janjua. The movie also features Varun Sharms and Karan Kundraa in key roles.
