Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri has spilled beans regarding her absence from Bollywood. Fakhri, who has worked in hits such as Rockstar, recently shared she had become unwell while working in Indian film industry. 

Talking about her absence from industry, Fakhri recalled to News18, “I became unwell. I was going through too much mental and physical stress. I had a lot of physical ailments that were interfering with my daily life. It was very difficult to ignore these problems. My body, in a way, was telling me that it was not able to handle it. I knew it in my mind that I had to take a break because I wasn’t the happiest person.”

Actress believes that actors often need more than just a few days of break to be themselves. “In an industry like this, you’re constantly running on a hamster wheel, you’re always in a rat race and you’ve to keep up because you don’t want to fall back. You’ve to attend meetings, you’ve to do ads it just never ends! You only get a couple of days off between projects. Pressure and mental stress that you go through are heavy even though that depends on kind of films or characters you’re doing. You’ve to invest your soul when you’re acting,” also added.  Fakhri shares that despite these hiccups, she kept at it by focusing on silver lining.

“I kept working because I was blessed to have opportunities and I didn’t want to just throw them away and walk off. I definitely enjoyed some bits of it but I had my share of unhappy days, weeks and months,” she recalls and adds, “I had to push through. I didn’t want to just give up. I was pushing myself so hard that my mind felt disconnected from my body. I really needed rest.”–Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 09 2022

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