Why didn’t Manisha Koirala become a really popular actress?

 Partly Inconsistent, Partly Bad film choices and partly unlucky

Manisha Koirala failed to give consistent hits. Every hit of her was followed by multiple flops. Her record in movies is pretty bad in terms of percentage of hits. She has worked in 64 films as a lead actress out of which only 9 were successful - Saudagar, Bombay, Agni Sakshi, Gupt, Kacche Dhaage, Company, Chhupa Rustam, Company and Ek Choti si Love Story. She was an exceptionally talented actress but she didn't even worked in proper performance oriented roles which could fetch her high critical acclaim. She could have survived longer had she done films like Bombay or Khamoshi in her later years. But rather she lapsed to B grade cinema which fastened her decline.

She was also unlucky because some of her best films failed commercially. 1942. A Love Story had everything from exceptional music to great production values and a patriotic backdrop and sensitive filmmaking but the film failed commercially. Khamoshi the Musical also had great performances and music but it also failed commercially (Manisha lost out to National awards that year because the producers failed to send the film to National awards on time). Her third underrated film Dil Se despite having SRK and outstanding music failed. Even Company did Average business. Had these films successful she would have been hailed as a great actress along with a big star.

Thirdly, one of the reasons why actresses like Madhuri Dixit or Karishma Kapoor or Sridevi were able to succeed so much was because of their successful pairing with other actors which gave them a stable career. While Madhuri Dixit was paired with Anil Kapoor, and Karishma with Govinda, Manisha Koirala couldn't establish any successful pairing with any top actor. In fact she has given flops with all the top stars be it Aamir Khan (Akele Ham Akele Tum, Manner), SRK (Guddu, Dil Se), Salman (Nischay, Sangdil Sanam, Khamoshi) etc. She was rumoured to have affairs with Nana Patekar (more than just rumours), Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff as well as directors like Sameer Malkan but none of that benifited her professionally

She further ruined her career in the early 2000s by doing glow budget erotic B grade films like Ek Chhoti si Love Story, Market, Paisa Vasool, Tum, Ek Second jo zindagi badal de etc. In these movies she did a lot of skin show and there were legal issues arising out of it (Manisha Koirala blamed the makers of Ek Chhoti si Love Story of using her duplicate to shoot a really inappropriate scene. She also tried to turn producer with Paisa Vasool which bombed very badly. She even tried to launch her brother Siddharth Koirala with the film Anwar (known only for its songs like Maula mere Maula mere) but that eventually ended up ending her career as lead actress. Even her otherwise decent films like Tulsi (remake of a National Award Winning film which was successful in all the languages it was made in, failed so badly that it earned only 85 thousand rupees), and I (National award winning film) failed miserably.

Lastly she missed out many good projects because of her schedules or unprofessional behaviour. Two plum projects were Dil to pagal hai and Biwi no 1. Both of those roles were done by Karishma Kapoor who reached the zenith of her career because of that. She also left Keemat after shooting for a days and was replaced by Sonali Bendre. And she left Hrishikesh Mukherjee's last film Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate over money. Even when she was working she was pretty unprofessional. For Sanjay Gupta’s Khauff she reported for a 7 pm shoot at 9:30 PM did her makeup etc till 11:30, shot for 2 days for a week schedule and went abroad leaving the set stranded.

Who are some popular Indian actors who started their career doing minor roles in movies?

 Sai Pallavi :

Her dance for rowdy baby song in ‘ Maari 2 ‘ have a separate fan base.

She started her career in the first film as a minor role in ‘ Pandem Kodi ‘ as a friend character.

Actually she was interested in medicine who wanted to become a cardiologist. But unfortunately she became a dancer because of her passion and interest . By the thrown and unfortunate opportunities she became an actor.

She was recognised and became popular with ‘Fidaa’ movie with which the language she had spoke in that movie and her debut acting which lead to the blockbuster in her career.

Nani :

He is well known as Natural star.

He started his career with “Ashta chamma” even it was not a minor role but he shared screen with Srinivas avasaraala.

Later he became popular with “Pilla Zamindar” after “bheemili” and “snehitida” which were not recognised much.

Later his “Eega” and “Eto vellipoindi manasu" were noticed and later got chances with many movies.

Best movie in Nani's career is “Jersey”.

He is one of the hero in tollywood who came up with his own acting skills.

Vijay Devarakonda :

Very few people know that he was acted in ‘ Life is beautiful ‘ as a gold phase rich guy.

He was not recognised in that minor role.

And his first commercial movie “ Pelli choopulu “ was the biggest hit in his career and later movie with Nani was also appreciated.

Later he became overnight star with “ Arjun Reddy" and people started calling him Rowdy and kondanna.

He was the one who recognised early with succeded movies in his career. He’s well known for his attitude.

Sharwanand :

Played a minor role in Shankar Dada MBBS, as a patient and was appeared on the screen for 2 minutes.

Later he started his career with “Amma cheppindi' was appreciated with his acting skills.

Later he had done many movies but fan base started with ‘Run Raja Run' movie.

Ravi Teja :

He is known for mass acting. He is called as Mass Maharaja.

He started his career with minor role in sindhooram followed by many side roles.

He was later noticed in “Annaya" along with chiranjeevi.

Later his powerful acting in the movie “Vikramarkudu “ is the biggest blockbuster in his career. Later he had done movies with continuous fluctuations of hits and flops at anyway but he is more popular for his mass acting.

Trisha :

Her first movie in minor role is “Jodi" where she acted as friend for Simran.

Later her commercial movies “Varsham” and “ nuvvu vastavantey nenu vaddantaana “ were the biggest hits in her career.

Later she was noticed and recognised, became famous with “Athadu” movie along with Mahesh babu.

She had done many movies in Telugu and Tamil.

Her ‘96' is the biggest blockbuster in Tamil.

Sathyaraj :

I came to know that he too started his career with some minor roles and later started slowly with powerful characters.

His acting in “Snehitudu” (3 idiots) is completely different.

Now everyone knows him as “Kattappa” in bahubali.

Naveen polishetty :

In Same movie ‘ Life is beautiful ‘ the above person with devarakonda is Naveen.

He acted in ‘chichhore ‘ with sushant Singh rajput in Hindi film but he was not much recognised.

His minor role in Mahesh babu ‘ 1 ‘ movie was also unnoticed because it was the disaster in the tollywood.

Later his videos in YouTube on the engineering campus placements was succeeded and was then noticed by many.

Later his movie ‘Agent Sai Srinivas athreya' was appreciated but it was noticed as an underated movie.

Adavi sesh :

He started his career with the first entrance in “Sontham” movie.

Later he did not done any movies for years.

Later he started his career and became popular with “kshanam” and “goodaachari".

He also got chance in Bahubali to share screen with prabhas and Rana Daggubati.

Kajal agarwal :

Kyon Ho Gaya was her first hindi film beside Aishwarya roy.

Later she started her movie career with “Laxmi kalyanam” and got fame with “chandamama” and became popular with “Maghadheera”.

Still there are many actors who played minor roles and became popular even after many failures.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you are discovered.

Who are some popular Indian actors who started their career doing minor roles in movies?

 Oru Kadha Solatuma Sir?…

• Vijay started as an actor playing short roles in many films.
• He started his acting career wuth Gokulathil Seethai in 1996.
• Then he acted in many short roles alongside Dhanush, Jayam Ravi, Karthi etc.

• He was unknown until his entry with Seenu Ramaswamy’s Thenmerku Paruvakatru.
• Then he also acted in side roles in Sundarapandiyan alongside Sasikumar.
• Later Pizza happened. Pizza gave him a breakthrough and from Pizza came Naduvula Konjam Pakkathula Kanom.
• Then everything he touched turned into gold and he gave a list of success and above average films.
• Every month used to be his film release once because he had signed and acted in so many films.
• 2012 turned out to be his year and from there to the recent guest role in Oh my Kadavule he has come so far.
• From 500 rupees salary to 75 lacs for a guest role, Vijay has risen so much and credit goes to his hard work and luck.
• From Tamilnadu state film awards to Filmfares, he had every major award under his belly.
• Known as a versatile actor who has acted as a transgender, a old man - people really wonder what this man cannot do.

• His recent 96 was praised all over India and Vikram Vedha along with Super Deluxe had given the stardom he needed throughout India

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Hardwork and patience both combined can take a man to every place that is possible. Vijay Sethupathi is an absolute masterclass actor. Started as a minor role guy and now he is one of the most wanted actors in Tamil cinema. I’d give vijay sethupathi a perfect 10 for his acting.

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What are some strange facts about some popular Bollywood actors?

 

• Shatrugan Sinha's daughter Sonakshi looks like his ex Reena Roy.

• Mahesh Bhatt's daughters Pooja & Alia Bhatt's have an age gap of 21 years.

• Sridevi apparently tied rakhi to Boney Kapoor before getting married.

• Sridevi & Boney Kapoor's elder daughter Janhvi Kapoor was born after 3 months of their wedding.

• Rekha wears vermilion even though she isn't married.

• Kareena Kapoor attended Saif Ali Khan's first wedding when she was just 10.

• Shraddha Kapoor scored 95% in her 12th boards.

• Ajay Devgn & SRK are Chainsmokers.

How popular was the actor Aditya Panchuli in the 80s and 90s? What was his hit film?

 Aditya Pancholi was never particularly a successful actor. Surprisingly he has worked in more than 100 films but you won't even remember 10 because most of them are utterly forgettable. Even his known films have been moderate hits and he has not been part of any Blockbuster film in 80’s or 90’s.

His most popular movies are- Saathi (perhaps his only major hit as the main lead), Aatish (moderately successful but acclaimed particularly for the chemistry between Sanjay Dutt and Aditya), Mahasangram (film was not successful but Aditya Pancholi received a lot of acclaim for his performance even in a multi starter setup), Yes Boss (his last hit before his career tumbled down, and the beginning of his negative roles), Ravan Raj (one of the films of Mithun Ooty factory but a good one), Tahalka (very campy film but a big hit), Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (even though the film had Jackie Shroff and Aditya Pancholi the film was all about Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor).

Frankly speaking Aditya Pancholi was known for his controversies and affairs more than his films and performances. He was embroided in many affairs even after getting married to Zarina Wahab who was much older than him. Important affairs of Aditya Pancholi included Pooja Bedi and Kangana Ranaut.

At one point he also started his own production house named AMA production (A meant Aditya, M Mandakini and A Ajit Devani). Mandakini however blamed Aditya Pancholi for misappropriation of he funds and making the film Naamcheen without her and without her knowledge. Eventually the film failed. He has a long history of fights, scandals and controversies (the Kangana controversy as well) and his son Sooraj Pancholi was also an accused in the Jia su**ide case.

Who are some popular Indian actors who started their career doing minor roles in movies?

 Some actors from Kollywood…

1. Trisha in the movie Jodi (1999), starring Prashanth and Simran

2. Raghava Lawrence as a group dancer in Prabhudeva troop in the film Gentlemen (1993) starring Arjun and Madhoobala

3. Vijay Sethupathi as a gang member in the film Pudhupettai (2006) starring Dhanush and Sneha. He has also acted in uncredited roles in films like, Lee, Naan Mahan Alla, M.Kumaran s/o Mahalakshmi, Vennila Kabadi kulu.