MUMBAI: Taha Shah Badussha portrayed Tajdar Baloch in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi struggled to relaunch himself in the film industry after making his breakthrough more than ten years ago. He revealed the details of his struggles in a recent interview, including doing up to eight auditions every day and falling victim to scam artists he had paid to get opportunities for him.

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Taha spoke to the popular news portal, “I have been in the film industry for 14 years and I got nothing. In the last 5-6 years, I was getting 500-600 likes on my Instagram posts but one day, boom… I started getting likes in lakhs and lakhs. My Instagram is buzzing, every 2-3 minutes I am getting a message.”

Discussing the gamble of pursuing acting, Taha said, “I accept it on camera I go to parties to make contacts. It didn’t help instantly, but now, everybody will pick up my call. I have tried to call casting directors and six years they didn’t pick up my calls.” Explaining how he kept pursuing people for roles, he said, “I live on my calendar. If I had called a person, I would make sure I call him/her again after two weeks. I have thousands of names on my calendar. I would make 40 calls each day. Cold calling is the best discipline anybody should go through,” he added. When asked if he feared looking desperate, he said, “I am desperate. You should be desperate. If you are not desperate in life, you will not get anything and I am live example of the same.”

Taha said that in the past, finding work has occasionally been difficult for him due to his good looks. He stated, “I have gotten so many rejections because they said ‘you are too good looking.’ They have said ‘if you are too good looking then what will happen to the lead’. I have not gotten films and auditions because of that. The other belief is that since you too good looking, you can’t act.”

Taha kept working on his talent by going to acting and dance lessons, putting himself in position for potential chances even though he had no projects lined up. He revealed that right now, he receives calls from individuals all over the world offering blessings, “Aunties, mothers are calling me give to give me blessings. People are calling from Cape Town, from Sri Lanka. Before it was just me and my family praying, now it’s the world praying for me.”

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CREDIT: The Indian Express