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View this post on InstagramBipasha has completed 20 years in the industry and has had a fair share of struggles. She says she's glad that she didn’t give in to the rules of how a leading lady in Bollywood is supposed to be and took the road less traveled. Basu made her acting debut in 2001 with the multi-starrer Ajnabee, directed by Abbas–Mustan.
In an interview with Hindustan Times, she narrated some brutally honest and rather strange incidents on how people used to react to her boldness. “It was back then when I met my first hairstylist, Kaushal, who basically taught me what were the rules of being a heroine at that point of time. And they were quite funny and hilarious to me,” she said.
She went on to add, “As an actress, you apparently had to hide in those days. But I was very different. I guess that’s why the bohemian tag came to me very fast. My choice of roles was very different. My presence was very different. I did not look like the quintessential, fair, petite, timid girl. I looked quite feisty, fiery, and sexy.”
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Basu did not care for what is and isn't socially acceptable. She was okay with the ‘sexy’ tag but back then, it wasn’t something people were comfortable with. She shared, “Today, sexy has become a very easy adjective. But back then, when people used to call me sexy, there’d be questions, how do I feel about it. But I don’t know why they thought I’m bohemian. Maybe it’s just because I didn’t hide and used to speak my mind.”
She also shared how she was asked to abide by certain rules. “I remember I was having iced tea in a glass while shooting Ajnabee in Switzerland. My hairstylist came and told me, ‘Everyone is thinking that you are drinking whiskey’. She asked me to drink it in a cup to avoid this perception. Then this other time, I was wearing a backless blouse, and she told me, ‘Actresses don’t dress up like this’ and that I’m only supposed to wear it on-screen,” she said.
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Elaborating it further and sharing her resentment over these rules, she said, “I used to ask if you can’t wear something in your normal life, how can you wear it on screen. In fact, I’ve had experiences where big actresses would comment on other girls wearing tiny shorts off-screen, and when they were the ones who’d wear it on screen.”
Bipasha has always been refreshingly honest about her relationships but she was advised not to. From dating Dino Morea to John Abraham, she has always been very transparent about her personal life. She recalled an incident wherein she announced that her boyfriend is coming on set and people were not very pleased to hear it. “I was asked why you’re talking about your boyfriend. It’s a very personal thing. I was like I’m not ashamed of my boyfriend and don’t need to hide him,” she shared.
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Like we know that Bollywood has an obsession with fair skin, Bipasha had a tough time with people accepting her dusky tone and had to hear insensitive remarks.
“I used to love sunbathing all the time, even though I’m dusky. But I was told, ‘You’ve to walk with an umbrella all the time’. I understand now why umbrellas are required. Back then, in my me-time, I was told that you shouldn’t tan because you’re already dusky. But none of these things really stopped me. These are some rules that I was told to follow right from my first film, which I never followed,” she asserted.
We are glad that she didn’t succumb to such rules and lived life according to her own rules.
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