esha gupta has never shied away from her bold and beautiful image shes never let the trolls or negativity stop her from sharing her photos on social media likewise shes never cried foul about a lack of opportunities in films her flops and failures or her being typecast in grey roles shes embraced her career and pitfalls with the same confidence as shes accepted her dark complexion and indian featuresread alsoabhay deol i was never enamoured by fame money doesnt bring you happiness biginterviewabhay deol is cut from a different cloth he may be a deol but this apple certainly fell a little far from the tree throughout his career hes taken the off beat roles and movies more seriously and thats made him the poster boy of indie cinemaparesh rawal i had to carry forward rishi kapoors creation in sharmaji namkeen without vandalising it biginterviewparesh rawal on andaz apna apna working with rajkumar santoshi and priyadarshan akshay kumar playing rishi kapoor in sharmaji namkeen evolution of comedy returning to gujarati cinema and more biginterviewsathyaraj i like shah rukh khan and though my character in chennai express wasnt great i did it only for him biginterviewsathyaraj or as most millennials and movie buffs refer to him kattappa from baahubali has an astonishing story of achieving his dreams in the film industry believe it or not he never wanted to be an actor he was just content with working for filmsshes unabashed about her choices and her looks having spent a decade in the movies she doesnt mind a slowpaced but assured career graph in this weeks big interview esha talks about playing negative roles with aplomb loving her body and not letting her outsider status break her spirit excerptsyouve preferred to play female characters with grey shades in your films and projects whats been the motivation to do so i believe its very easy to play the damsel in distress its tougher to play the grey character or the strong one i think its not because of any other reason but the entire perception of what being a woman is like im not saying this with respect to society the entire world feels that a woman needs help theres a perception that a woman cant reach anywhere status wise she is considered physically weak because human society has taught us to think that way if you look at the animal kingdom things are different its the lioness who actually goes out preys and attacks to get the food the lion doesnt do anythingbeing in the entertainment industry for almost a decade now youve seen bollywood change and now with ott do you feel an actor still faces the pressure of staying relevant things have changed today theres a pressure of doing good and different work rather than putting out the same repetitive content even if theres no consistency of having backtoback projects it doesnt affect an actor all that much earlier films and projects used to have