WHEN ADITYA CHOPRA GAVE REALITY CHECK TO DIVYA DUTTA AFTER SHE SIGNED 22 FILMS: ‘DO YOU NEED MONEY?’

Divya Dutta was going through a rather good phase in her career when she signed 22 films at once but as soon as she did that, YRF head Aditya Chopra made her realise that this wasn't the right move for her career. In a recent interview, Divya was asked about the mistakes she made with regard to her career and she recalled signing too many films at once and how Aditya asked her to take a step back.

Talking to Siddharth Kannan, Divya said, "I remember I went to meet Aditya Chopra once. I don't remember if it was before or after Aaja Nachle. He asked 'what's happening?' I told him I am doing 22 films. I thought he will be happy and pat me on my back. He didn't say anything. There was pin drop silence." Divya was puzzled when Aditya didn't congratulate her for signing almost two dozen films and when she directly asked him if he wasn't happy, she got to know why.

"I asked him 'are you not happy?' He said 'are you in need of money?' I said no. He said, 'then leave a legacy, why are you doing so many films?'" she recalled. Divya said that this conversation led her down a path of self realisation where she learnt something about herself. "I started to self reflect as to why am I doing so many films? I realised that whenever I got an offer for a film, it made me feel good, it made me feel wanted, in demand. I was almost overcompensating for the rejections I had faced before. So I ended up signing 22 films," she recalled.

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Divya shared that she changed her decision making process after this and started doing things that made her happy. "Then slowly, I stopped and I started selecting things that truly made me happy. And after that, my career graph changed," she recalled.

Divya was last seen with Parvin Dabas and Sakshi Tanwar in Tahira Kashyap's Sharmajee Ki Beti.

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