Here’s Why Moving To Bollywood Is Not A Very Good Idea For TV Actresses!

TV actresses are exceptionally gifted when it comes to literally becoming and living like the character they play on national television. From Tulsi to Ishita Bhalla and Maya, all actresses right from Smriti Irani to Divyanka Tripathi, and now Jennifer Winget have established that women on TV have the power to captivate audiences for years to come and that too successfully.

Popularity overshadows craft

Playing a TV character, especially when most successful TV actresses choose to stick to one show at a time is an incredible craft. But, while these actresses are the queens of TV, it does get difficult for audiences to accept them in a 20 minute role or less in fact in a 2.5 hour long movie. They are so good at their craft that they somehow get stereotyped and when one looks at a TV actress on silver screen, it gets really difficult for fans to get their image out of their head from their show.

Poorly written roles

Another factor that shakes the ground for TV actresses who are on the verge of making their Bollywood debut is the fact that their roles are seldom written with the same passion than the others. Many of them are taken into massy films banking on their small screen popularity to attract mass audience. It will be interesting to see   Mouni Roy who has three big films in her kitty right now. She’s definitely a part of Gold with Akshay, and Ayan Mukerji ’s Brahmastra and John Abraham 's Romeo Akhbar Walter. Mouni is touted as the best goddess and naagin of TV, but, as fans we’re actually skeptical about her roles in these mega movies, considering she’s opposite Khans, and she has lesser chance of landing a lead role.

Item songs

The biggest fear associated to TV actresses in films is merely confining them to an item song. In a recent movie titled Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, TV actress Shilpa Shinde who is now in Bigg Boss 11, was seen in a hilarious item song that made no sense and rather looked more like she was exploited in it for the sake of her popularity as Angoori Bhabi from Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain. TV actress Barkha Bisht has also been in a similar position for her item song and never really got a substantial role. However, when she came back to TV in Naamkarann , she was accepted by the audience. It’s probably the presentation of TV actresses in the movies that kills their craft and the so called golden chance to enter Bollywood lures them into signing on such films.

We are yet to see Ankita Lokhande in Manikarnika with Kangana Ranaut , and that perhaps could be a game changer for TV actresses because it’s not a male dominated movie. While there’s no doubt about the talent and performances of TV actresses, taking the road to Bollywood is still a risky idea as long as we live in the era of daily soaps and not seasons, because the audience will never be able to erase the image of that actress from their mind no matter what!