‘With success, you lose friends and gain enemies’
It has been eight years that she has been a part of Bollywood (she debuted with Aladin; 2009). Ever since, Jacqueline Fernandez has made her way slowly-butsurely into the film industry. “I have met amazing people along the way. So, all I can think about right now is that I can’t complain,” says Jacqueline as she talks about life, career, link-ups, working with Salman Khan and more. This is your eighth year in BTown How have things been? I don’t think things always go as per your plan as everything in life is unpredictable. You can plan things but there is no guarantee that it will work out the way you want it to. Even for me, things did not work out the way I planned them. Coming to India was also not a part of my plan. Everything that has happened in my life till now, I never expected them. The fact that I wanted to be an actress all my life and am getting to be one is amazing. I am independent and happy that I have made it my way. Success is always sweet but doesn’t it come with a lot of responsibility and negativity too? Of course, there are positives and you must always look at them. But success necessarily doesn’t give you an amazing life. With success you lose friends, gain enemies and tend to attract a lot of people with ulterior motives. People constantly judge you and expectations keep rising; and that comes with a lot of pressure. You can dwell and let it get to you or you can say, ‘it is my life and I don’t need to give thought to anything negative’. A happy person contributes more to the world than an unhappy person. Your last release, Judwaa 2 fared really well. Do you still get extremely kicked about success? Yes, absolutely. I almost forgot what success tastes like (laughs) because Judwaa 2 came after a long gap. Last year, I had two hits, and now Judwaa 2 has been very well received. So yes, it feels amazing. With every film you learn, but when a movie does so well, it just motivates you to do more work and better yourself. Everyone who has worked hard on a film is happy when it does well; and that’s the most amazing thing. Till now, you have majorly done commercial films. Are you happy to be called an outandout ‘commercial’ heroine? Absolutely! I love my commercial cinema and enjoy doing them. I feel people tend to take commercial cinema actresses for granted. They forget that even though we make things seem effortless in commercial films, it involves a lot of work, which is why not everyone can be a commercial actress. More than anything else, I see myself as an entertainer. Commercial cinema gives me an opportunity to do that, and I am happy doing it.