Failures, Bollywood and Stardom.

'Failure' is a word everyone is afraid of. Failure signifies defeat and defeat is something which a human nature does not accept easily. There are a lot of failures after which comes success. Failures in Bollywood are something which everyone can learn from.

Like Ram Madhvani took 14 years to create 2016's most acclaimed movie Neerja after his debut into directing. Sujoy Ghosh took 4 failed attempts to make this decade's biggest thriller, Kahaani. So, it does take a lot of failures to reach success. What if Amitabh Bachchan had quit Bollywood after his first failure in the form of Saat Hindustani? We would have had no angry young man. So, it does take time for things to come our way.

Bollywood has seen a lot of failures, though it has also given us an idea about how to cope up with them. The biggest example being Anurag Kashyap who bounced back after the delivering the biggest flop of the decade, "Bombay Velvet." When an off-beat movie earns good moolah (even may not recovering full amount), the director gets a lot of inspiration and hope to make more such movies. Nil Battey Sannata and Pink are such examples.

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Once someone becomes successful in Bollywood, what follows is stardom. Stardom is a cocktail of fame, power and money. It is something that is highly addictive. In the world of stardom, the person should not forget about his/her failures and the people who were with them when they were nothing. It was their faith that helped them through their failure.

In life, we all have ups and downs, there can be bumps too. We face failures, we taste success but when we fail Bollywood can teach us about a thing or two. So, never feel lost, never lose out your dream (maybe related to Bollywood), don't be afraid of failure and when you believe that you should quit, look upto these examples. It can be that you could be the next Ram Madhvani or the next Amitabh Bachchan in your field and always remember Harivansh Rai Bachchan's lines, "Mann ka ho toh achaa, mann ka na ho toh behtar" which means if things go the way you want then it is good, if not then it is even better.

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