'I'm surviving because of my songs, never got the tag of an actor': Shilpa Shetty

Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty recently spoke about not getting enough chances to portray her acting chops. The actor said she has survived this long in the audience's memory largely due to the popularity of her songs.

Speaking to Siddharth Kannan, the actor said she got typecast as a glamorous heroine: "I never got the tag of an actor. I always got relegated or rather typecast into being just a glamorous actor, which is also a great niche to have because today I can proudly say that I can do this (pointing at the poster of her film Sukhee), but can you become glamorous? I can say proudly that I picked from whatever was offered to me and I survived.”

Despite delivering hits like Main Khiladi Tu Anari, the actor was never offered a movie



from a big production house.

"I have had a long career with so many lows that I used to wonder, ‘Why didn’t I get offered this role or why was I never offered a film with big banners?’ Whatever I have achieved is by working in small films with big actors. I did small characters and no matter whether my films worked or not, all my songs were hits. I am surviving because of my songs," Shilpa stated.

She further added, “There are films of the 90s which I worked in, and the producers would say, ‘Oh, we incurred losses.’ So, I didn’t get the remaining fees also. That time was very different.”

On the work front, Shilpa Shetty will next be seen in the family entertainer Sukhee, which releases later this month.