Ileana Says Southern Filmmakers Had A Misconception About Her!

Goa girl Ileana D'cruz is quite popular among Telugu movie lovers despite settling in the North for the past decade or so. She is known for her ultra-glamorous roles in Tollywood and gained a lot of stardom which faded away off late. While her Bollywood career started brightly with 'Barfi', it did not go anywhere and Ileana is left with no big projects in her hand and she became a mom last year.

Talking about her Hindi debut film 'Barfi' and her lack of opportunities in the South, Ileana said, “It wasn't meant to be a shift. It was me doing a Hindi film because I genuinely loved Barfi as a story. I thought that it was an unusual film, and I didn't really see myself doing anything like that or having something like that come my way ever again. It was a one-off and I thought it would be stupid to give it up. It wasn't like 'Oh, now I am moving my base to Bollywood, and I am never going to do a South Indian film again'.”

She added, “But I feel somewhere when I signed up to do Barfi, there was this weird misconception that 'she's moving to Bollywood now. She's not going to be interested in doing South films.' The offers kind of just dwindled away. I didn't really get many offers at all but yes, it's true that I did become more selective about the work I want to do after moving to Bollywood.”

She went on to say that a lot of work she had done kind of went unnoticed. She was recently seen in a Bollywood flick 'Tera Kya Hoga Lovely' in which she romanced Randeep Hooda. She played the role of a girl who suffers from having a dark skin complexion and the movie shows India's obsession with fair skin.