This time Gitanjali Mishra’s story in Success Story. Gitanjali Mishra has appeared in more than a dozen serials. She cried as she told the story of her struggle and success.
“My relatives turned out to be the bad guys. When I joined the industry, they started taunting me. My father had passed away a long time ago. The relatives started speaking ill of my mother. They said that ‘she would make her daughter do bad things for money.
Saying this, actress Geetanjali Mishra broke down in tears. Geetanjali, who has appeared in many TV serials and films, had a very rough start.
She said: “At one point I was crying tears of blood. The family had drawn a limit for me. I have always worked there. Despite this, people spoke badly about me and my family. Today, while I have made a name for myself, the same people follow me everywhere. I recruit my children so that I can have them work in the industry.
Gitanjali became emotional several times while telling the story of her struggle and success. However, his enthusiasm and confidence have not diminished.
Mother first veils herself, then opens the door “I come from a middle-class Brahmin family. Although I was born in Mumbai, our roots are from Banaras. When I was little, my father died. Mother raised me alone.
The women in my house still wear the veil. If someone rings the doorbell, the mother first removes her veil and then opens the door. Now that would have made it clear what the atmosphere regarding movies would have been in my family.
Even movie magazines were not available in the house, as the front page heroines wore short clothes. “Well, forget about movies, even show biz magazines weren’t available at my house. The family members had a problem with this as the heroines were seen in short clothes on their page. I was always told to follow the rules. There was no freedom to do anything outside the box.
I wanted to become a cosmetics consultant, but destiny had something else in mind “I wanted to become a cosmetics consultant after finishing my studies. But fate had something else in store for us. In the building where I live in Mumbai, there lives a woman named Seema Sharma. She was associated with the direction department of the television industry. He and I have a good friendship.
He needed a female artist for the role of a doctor in the serial Piya Ka Ghar. He asked me so I sent him a girl. Everything was finalized, but on the day of filming, the young girl did not arrive on set.
I had made a mistake, so I had to compensate. “Since I was the one who recommended this girl.” Obviously, the responsibility became mine. I got a call asking who did you send, now how is the filming going to happen? I apologized to him. I asked Seema to tell me what can I do? He said you come yourself and take action. I hadn’t even thought about becoming an actor, but at that time there was no choice but to go for it.
Alok Nath suddenly called, she went to him, scared “I went on set with fear. My eyes were dazzled as soon as I saw the star cast of the series I had opted for. Many great artists like Alok Nath, Suhasini Mule and Sulabha Arya were part of the series.
As soon as I arrived on site, I was told that I didn’t have time to give a lot of explanations, to quickly read the script and prepare for filming. What could I do, in an instant I remembered the one-page script and spoke in front of the camera.
As soon as the filming ended, people started clapping. I remained ignorant, I did not understand why there was this applause. Then Alok Nath ji called me. I was scared, I thought I had made a mistake. He said son, was this your first time? I said: Yes sir, I faced the camera for the first time. He applauded and said you did a great job.
Gitanjali Mishra got a job in the series Ittfakan, but she didn’t know that it was her future.
I didn’t consider acting for two years, then a coincidence happened. “Well, after that I didn’t think about acting again for two years. Then, two years later, another similar incident occurred. Once again, Seema remembered me.
This time he called me for Sony TV’s show “Ek Ladki Anjani Si”. I worked on this show for 6 months. Soon after, I got a lead offer for a show on Doordarshan. Little by little, I began to feel that maybe I was cut out for this job.
The relatives started saying: Mishra ji’s daughter is gone. “I would go to the sets with Seema Didi (director) and then go home with her. For this reason, even the mother did not worry much. She knew I wouldn’t go wrong. However, those close to me did not like me joining the industry. They started saying, Hey, Mishra Ji’s daughter has gone out of control. He smelled the Bombay air.
Those who once committed crimes against their personality are now having their children incarcerated. “Now what’s interesting is that the people who used to call my mother and I wrongly, now take photos when we meet. I recruit my children so that I can have them work somewhere. The neighbors also respect my mother after seeing it. They say that you are Gitanjali’s mother, right? They discuss my soap operas with my mother.
Seeing all this makes me laugh and at the same time I learn too. This teaches us that if you have cried tears of blood, sooner or later those tears will definitely turn into pearls.
When an elderly woman said: I’m going to hit you with slippers “I have worked in many episodes of Crime Patrol and Savdhaan India. There I played mainly negative roles. Once I played such a negative role that people started criticizing me outside. One day I was wandering around the mall. Then an elderly woman came to me and said: “Aren’t you ashamed, how can you do such a bad thing?” I’m going to take out my slippers and hit you.
I was shocked for a while after listening to the woman. I felt a little bad too. Did you start to wonder if I was playing such a dirty role? However, later I realized that I should take this woman’s words as a compliment. Maybe I performed so well on screen that people started looking at me the same way in real life.
Gitanjali gained recognition by working in TV series based on crime shows, but in real life she also had to face many problems because of this.
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