Divya Dutta started her journey in Bollywood as a teenager. At the age of 16, she made her debut with the film ‘Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna’. After this film, he got popularity from the 1999 Punjabi film ‘Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Buta Singh’. But she admits that for many years she faced a lot of difficulties in getting work. During this period, he got success after the film ‘Veer-Zaara’ and he got a flood of film offers and he signed 20 films simultaneously, but then he returned the amount taken for many films. He explained the reason for this during an interview.
When Divya signed 20 films simultaneously.
Let us tell you that in an interview given to Hindustan Times, Divya told that around the year 2007, she received so many film offers that she signed about 20 films at one go. Divya says, “I remember I had taken about 20 films, because there was a time when I did not have any film and suddenly, I got so many offers that I accepted them all.”
Why returned money after signing 20 films?
However, after a chance meeting with Aditya Chopra, Divya abandoned all the films on which she had not yet started work. She worked with Aditya Chopra in ‘Veer-Zaara’ and ‘Aaja Nachle’. Divya says, “One day, I just happened to meet Aditya Chopra and have a cup of tea with him. We had just completed ‘Aaja Nachle’. I told him I had signed 20 films. He didn’t respond, so I asked him, ‘Aren’t you excited for me?’ He said, ‘Are you short of work? Or do you need money?’ I was very surprised to hear this and I said, ‘No.’ Then he asked me why I was signing so many films. ‘You are a very good actor, why don’t you leave behind a legacy that people will always remember?’
The actress said that the conversation with Aditya Chopra changed her way of looking at work and opportunities. She said, “This shocked me to my core. I had never thought about it that way. It was my choice to listen to him or continue making money from those 20 films. There was a lot at stake. But I went back and returned the signing amount for the films for which I had not yet started shooting. From then on, I only did what I enjoyed. That’s the decision I took.”
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Divya received the National Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for the film ‘Irada’ in 2017. Along with this, she also appeared in commercially successful films like ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, ‘Badlapur’ and ‘Chhaava’. Recently, the actress appeared in the web series ‘Chiraiya’, which is streaming on Jio Hot Star.