If you're a serious actor ignored by cinema, it can be devastating: Deepti Naval

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Oct 20 2019 | 1:25 PM IST

Deepti Naval describes acting as the best way to live a life, and in her career of nearly forty years, the actor has navigated her way through heartbreaks and fading work.

The veteran actor is thankful that she never became "convoluted" during the highs and lows.

Naval spearheaded her career in parallel cinema amid plenty of advices to appear in mainstream films. The actor recalls being told there's nothing left in parallel cinema, "no one even watches it."
"Then in the 90s there was some lucky work coming along but after that, somewhere in the late 90s, I felt that not much is happening and I was not getting the stuff I wanted to do."
"My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only about a 100, out of which I'd say at least 30-35 films I am even proud of."

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First Published: Oct 20 2019 | 1:25 PM IST