I don’t carry the burden of a flop: Anushka Sharma

Actor Anushka Sharma says she is never satisfied with her performance and always wishes she had done better.

Like everyone else in the film industry, actor Anushka Sharma feels a “sense of loss” when her film doesn’t do well, but unlike many, she doesn’t stress over it too much or for too long.

Actor Anushka Sharma says she is never satisfied with her performance and always wishes she had done better. (Rohan Shrestha)

The 28-year-old, who completed eight years in Bollywood on December 12, says: “You feel a loss because of the emotional attachment to a film. You feel that setback, but that’s part of your growth as a performer and person. Having failures in life is important to understand where exactly you stand... I don’t want to carry the burden of a flop. I don’t fall into that trap.” The actor delivered hit films such as Sultan and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil this year, whereas her big project, Bombay Velvet, had bombed at the box office last year.

Sharing what director Imtiaz Ali told her on the sets of her film alongside Shah Rukh Khan — tentatively titled The Ring — Anushka says: “He said, ‘When an actor feels they’ve given a good shot, that’s not usually a good shot. A good shot is when an actor feels it’s not so good, that’s the one that people feel connected to.’ So you see, it’s a strange thing. It’s difficult to judge yourself. You don’t know honestly which way it has gone.”

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