Kirti Kulhari felt 'it's the end' when she was once replaced in a South Indian film while battling depression in her personal life

Actors in Bollywood are not unknown to rejection and replacements. Despite their starry lives, actors often get rude awakenings in their careers especially when they are new or facing some lows. Actress Kirti Kulhari had one such tale to narrate and she revealed that she was once dropped from a South Indian film overnight while she was personally battling depression and she felt she had lost everything.

The actress finally got her acting break after years of modeling work in 2010. Talking about her low phase in 2009 she tells RJ Siddharth Kannan, “There was one time that I specifically remember where I was just losing everything. It was around 2009. I had bagged a south Indian film and it so happened that in my personal life, I was going through the worst time I have ever had in my life. I was going through depression. I remember when that was happening and I got this film, I went for a photoshoot for the film. After I came back from it, these guys never called me to come and shoot with them.”

Talking about how she felt after getting replaced she further relayed, “I was replaced. I didn’t realise it then. I don’t know if I was looking like s**t but I was just so not in my elements that I guess people could just see it. I was just replaced overnight. That, in addition to what I was going through personally, just shook me up in a way… It first made me feel like it’s the end. Like, there is no coming out of this and I am going to stay here, and this is what my life is going to be. It was that scary.”

Kirti debuted in Khichdi: The Movie as Parminder and went on to star in films like Shaitaan, Pink, Indu Sarkar and other which paved the way to a successful acting career.