During the peak of her career, Preity Zinta reached the level of stardom that easily classified her among the most celebrated stars of her time.
It was this dimpled beauty along with the likes of Rani Mukerji and Aishwarya Rai, who contended to be the quintessential queens of Bollywood and who ruled the industry after constant box-office hits and memorable roles, one after another.
But soon after her peak saw a short decline, the actress left the movie-biz altogether, and refused to appear in any more big-screen roles.
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Now set to make her return opposite Sunny Deol, in Bhaiaji Superhit (not really the kind of role she has previously been associated with), Zinta recently revealed how it was the need to find more financial stability in her life than acting could provide, which drove her to the decision of quitting Bollywood back then.
Here is what she was quoted as saying by Indiatimes:
“I was always seduced by this business world, I wanted a lot of money, of course, actors get money, but they have money till they work, but I wanted a lot of money as my lifestyle was different. So I decided to do something else, even I was at the peak of my career I left acting and switched to cricket, people thought I am crazy, but I wanted financial stability for the rest of my life and in a big way, and thank god I even succeeded in this.”
But what made her choose to make a comeback with a role like Sapna Dubey in this Sunny Deol potboiler?
Here is how she explained it:
“At one stage of my life I went to filmmakers who are my friends and asked why ain’t they casting me in a desi role, they were like no, that’s not your personality and I was like I am an actor, and that was probably I thought now I want to do something else, because when you are up there, been there, done that, and you have even worked with Yash Chopra you want to experiment, but that time was not of experiment, whenever I wanted to do some desi role, they used to say no Rani Mukerji will do it well.”
“And then I thought all my life I was looking for a desi role and now that I have got one I am saying no to it, this film has all that I haven’t done before, it was sindoor, saree, all my life I have done this modern role, but in my heart I am the biggest desi, so I said ok, I will do this role. Also, thanks to this movie, that I decided I want to do more movies because I actually forgot how much fun it was to do movies. “
Well, it is certainly good to see her back, irrespective of how stereotype-enforcing her comeback role looks.
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Are you excited for PZ’s comeback?