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I was a Rejected Actor!

• It has taken him 12 years for Bollywood understand the man called Nawaz.

• Slowly stepping into lead-actor roles, the man from the little-known town of Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, has acted in all the major films of Bollywood in recent times – Black Friday, New York, Peepli Live, Kahani, Gangs of Wasseypur, Talaash.

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui in talks with

Times of India • National Award-winning

actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui on his frustration during his years of struggle, his helplessness during public appearances and interviews, and why that won't stop him from giving even more of them

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Rejected several Times

• Itna zyada rejection hua, toh frustration bahut hoti thi • "Gussa sirf isliye aata tha kyunki main trained actortha,

aur trained actor ko lagta hai ki maine toh training li hai, mujhe kaam kyun nahin mil raha?

• That would frustrate me. I'd distribute my picture and bio data, but no one would call. I'd audition, but they wouldn't get what this guy was doing in the audition. And others around me got work."

• "Apne aas-paas ke logon ko kaam milte dekh ek jealousy bhi hoti hai aur frustration bhi, ki mujhe kyun kaam nahin mil raha. Main naam toh nahin loonga, lekin jab mere saamne bahut saare log star ban gaye thay, aur mera kuch nahin ho raha tha, woh gap bahut lamba ho gaya - 7-8 saal ka gap ho gaya. Sumitomo India

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Did not Have Money

• I'd do small jobs, stand in the crowd in a show, because you do need money to survive in Bombay. It wasn't as if my parents could send me money, they didn't have that much.

• I would go do an ad sometimes, play one of 10-15 small

characters,lekin camera jaise aa raha hai toh muh chhupa liya ki koi dekh bhi na le, ki saala yeh tohtraining le ke gaya tha, kya kar raha hai yeh.

• But when the evening ended, we would get some cash, of

which we had to pay half to the coordinator because we didn't have a junior artiste card. Tab bahut zyada hoti thi khundak," Nawaz says heatedly.

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15-second roles only

• I got calls only for one-minute, one-and-a-half-minute roles. I did them at first, because I had no option

• All I needed was footage. I did not get the screen space I needed. I'd started with a 15-second role, and my aspiration was a two-minute role. For many years, I did not get that two-minute role

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Frustrated but did not lose heart

• "Doosri baat yeh thi ki itna rejection hua, itna zyada rejection hua, uski wajah se frustrationbhi bahut hoti thi.

• But I became more confident about my work. All I needed was footage

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And the Winning!

• Nawazuddin recently got a Special Jury Award at the National Film Awards for four films - Kahaani, Gangs Of Wasseypur, Dekh Indian Circus and Talaash.

• From about the time of Gangs' boisterous reception at Cannes last year, he's been in great demand for both roles and interviews, getting more visibility in a couple of years than he'd ever dreamed of.

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Still he is down to earth… gives credit to people taste not to himself

• So, how did fortune change? Kuchh saal pehle, I was looked down upon as a rejected actor. But then, Indian cinema changed.

• A lot of young directors started experimenting with films over the past three years.

• New actors also eventually found a foothold in the industry. Those who were not taken seriously before, were being taken seriously.

• I got to enjoy the fruits of this change. Sumitomo India

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Summary in one Sentence

• "Pursue your dreams, no matter how much pain you have to take, no matter how much time it will take, but when you finally reach it, that's your destination and that's when you can say I HAVE ACHIEVED EVERYTHING" because for you everything was ur DREAM !!

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Lesson 1 Have Patience

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Lesson 2 Don’t miss even small opportunities

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Lesson 3 Trust Yourself Sumitomo India

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Lesson 4 Keep training yourself

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Lesson 5 Keep working hard

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