FAILURE ONLY MAKES YOU STRONGER: KIARA ADVANI

Actor Kiara Advani talks about her rollercoaster Bollywood journey

With a debut film that fizzled out without any noise followed by a box office hit and then another that tanked and then a blockbuster, Kiara Advani’s career graph has been oscillating. But the actor says that she doesn’t let success or failure get to her head or bog her down.

“I believe failure only makes you stronger,” says Kiara, who made her debut with Fugly in 2014. “That film [Fugly] not doing well turned out to be a reason that I stayed positive, got back on my feet and didn’t lose hope,” adds the actor, who recently made a successful Telugu film debut with Bharat Ane Nenu opposite Mahesh Babu.

In her second film, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Kiara played the role of Dhoni’s wife [Sakshi Dhoni], and her performance was received well. But despite such a good response, not many films came her way. Asked if she felt upset, she says, “It’s otherwise. That film, in fact, opened a lot of doors [for me] and brought me closer to the audience. People know me as Sakshi. I feel that is the biggest high for any actor.”

Post that, her next venture, Machine (2017), flopped and drew a lot of criticism, too. However, Kiara says she didn’t lose hope at all. Besides working with “wonderful directors [Abbas-Mustan] in a different kind of cinema” Kiara was seen in the remake of Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast (song) in the movie, which lead her to land a role in one of the short films directed by Karan Johar in a recent web series. “So, even when a film doesn’t work, I feel, everything contributes to the end of the day,” she adds.