Though Richa made her debut with a small role in Dibakar Banerjee's 2008 release "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!", she says her journey truly started with Anurag Kashyap's crime-saga "Gangs of Wasseypur" in 2012.
Post "Oye Lucky..." she went back to doing theatre, TV commercials and "wasn't interested in films" as she thought "it was very hard (to get good work) and people here are too strange and sleazy."
"It is difficult. I lose my mind every week," Richa says about surviving in the industry but adds she is not "bitter" as that would make her a cynic.
The actor says her anger is also extended to the paparazzi culture which focuses heavily on star kids.
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"The minute a star kid is born, you go and even click pictures of their diapers, and it goes on for the rest of our lives."
The 32-year-old actor says she has gone through such experiences where she has lost films because of politics and fake friendships.
"Not only would they do that, they would also be ready to sleep with the producers. I have lost a lot of work like that. I have learnt it the hard way," she adds.
She will be next seen in "Jia Aur Jia", also featuring Kalki Koechlin.
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