MUMBAI : T-Series announced in August 2022 that John Abraham, Riteish Deshmukh, Nora Fatehi, and Shehnaaz Gill would be starring in a movie titled 100%. The comedy was marketed as an exhilarating ride that touched on themes of spies, action, marriage, and love. It was scheduled for a theatrical release around Diwali 2023 and dubbed as Sajid Khan's directorial comeback following Humshakals. However, rumors began circulating last year that the movie had been put on the back burner when John left it for unspecified reasons.
For the first time, one of the movie's main actors has updated fans on the project and addressed rumors that it may be shelved. According to Nora, it's "not (happening) anymore" in an interview with the popular news portal. With perspective, she continues, “It’s not happening in the way it was said it was going to happen. They’re restructuring and changing certain things. But it might even happen, who knows! Let’s see.”
Apart from 100%, Nora has films like Matka with Varun Tej and Remo D’Souza’s Be Happy with Abhishek Bachchan, where she will be seen playing the protagonist. While she has earned popularity as a dancing diva with chartbusters like Manohari, Dilbar, Kusu Kusu, Kamariya, O Saki Saki, Manike and Jehda Nasha, to her credit, she’s excited for a new chapter in her career as an actor now.
However, she has never judged filmmakers for approaching her for dance numbers in their films in her earlier years in the industry. Talking about how she recognises their approach when they offer her dance numbers vis-à-vis acting roles, she tells us, “I see the difference but I also don’t think that one is better than the other. Both qualify as work and you’ve to bring something to the table in either of the cases.”
She, in fact, never had any qualms about being roped in to up the glam quotient and bankability of a project. “If you’re coming to bring the glam factor in a film and uplift its commercial value, that’s a big deal too. Not a lot of people are able to do that. So I do a dance number in a film with a lot of pride. Getting to have your name attached to a project knowing that it will help it commercially is a big deal. It means that I must have done something great to reach this point,” Nora remarks.
She was happiest when her goals came true and had a "screen presence" in a movie, which meant more to her than anything else. “It’s work at the end of the day. Once upon a time, I was a ‘nobody’. I was in my hood called Jane and Finch in Toronto hustling and doing four-five jobs. Today, a filmmaker is thinking about me and wanting to cast me and that’s helping me be in front of millions of people on a cinema screen. That’s a big deal for me. I look at it like that more than anything else,” the Madgaon Express actor says.
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