Actress Yami Gautam, who made her Bollywood debut opposite Ayushmann Khurranna in 2012’s Vicky Donor, has managed to make a mark in the Hindi film industry. With films like Uri: The Surgical Strike and A Thursday, Yami may have impressed the audience, but the actress finds her job ‘quite suffocating’.
Yami’s recent revelation proves that being an actor involves so much more than just being good at your work. In an interview, the Badlapur actress shared details of her chat with a very popular celebrity manager. The person had advised Yami to attend Bollywood parties so she can stay in the limelight and make sure that people haven’t forgotten her, she said.
“Recently, I reached early for a meeting, where I met somebody’s manager, somebody really senior. I had just happened to meet her. She and I were conversing and she asked me how she doesn’t see me in many parties. I didn’t understand what’s the big deal, but she insisted that I need to be seen in these places. She said, ‘Until you’re not seen, you’ve not arrived’. I told her that I thought I had arrived with a very good film, but she kept on insisting that I need to network and get out, I need to up my game, and be seen everywhere,” Yami told Indian Express.
She went on to add that the person told her, “You might have done a great first film, but that’s over, you’re forgotten.” When Yami told the manager that she doesn’t want to attend these parties as she’s rarely ever invited to them, the person told her that they can make arrangements for her.
Sharing how she felt after the rather awkward chat, Yami said, “But that’s not how I want to go, I don’t want to get myself invited, I don’t come from that thought process.”
In the same interview, Yami also spoke about high-end designers who refused to lend her their outfits. Without mentioning names, the actress slammed the industry’s ‘entire system’.
