Ameesha Patel claims her contemporaries were jealous, snatched films from her: ‘I was the educated outsider, they couldn’t handle it’

Ameesha then revealed that her contemporaries could not handle her success post Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000),  Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and Pawan Kalyan’s Telugu film Badri (2000).

On this, Ameesha said, “Then seeing success after success, seeing Hrithik and me becoming the heartthrob of the nation overnight and then Gadar coming in and then Badri coming in… whether it is Telugu, Tamil or Hindi cinema. God was kind, he knew I didn’t have a godfather so he gave me successful films but my contemporaries could not handle that. There was a lot of jealousy, snatching films from under your nose. There was a lot of cutting you off from films which I did not realise at that time that I have signed my films, blocked my dates but suddenly I am not on that set and a few months later someone else is.”

Ameesha then shared that most of the times she was not informed that she was being replaced by another actor. “A lot of times I was not informed and I have called a lot of ‘A’ list directors and said to them ‘bohot galat kiya aapne (what you did is wrong)’,” she said.

“That was not the age of social media and information didn’t go out so fast. We had these film guides and trade guides that came to the offices which we would read and find out what was going on. You really didn’t know, like today you know who is on what set (as) everything is posted on Instagram and Twitter. But then it was just that we used to just work in good faith,” said Ameesha.

Ameesha will be seen in Gadar 2 with Sunny Deol. The will will be released in theatres on July 11.