Originally posted by: nikitagmc
Ankita continued in PR playing an old woman while Sushant left the show for his acting career. This was in 2011, at that time Sushant did not have any big films in hand. Ankita wanted to quit too, her heart was clearly not happy playing an old woman in the show, those who play elder roles in TV also usually get typecast into playing elder roles in the future. Plus she also wanted to do films. But she stayed on. Reason:
1) She made a lot of money from the show, and since there was no guarantee of when Sushant would start earning again (he wanted to go to New York for a film making course + he had no big films in hand at that point + breaking into BW requires a large amount of initial investment for PR, grooming etc.) she continued in the show so that there would be ready flow of income for both of them. At present it is very easy to say Sushant was out of work for only one year, big deal! But at that point no one knew it was going to be that way... so many TV actors had flopped after stepping into films... they didn't know how well his bw journey would work out and this decision of hers to continue working was a very practical one at that point.
2) Her staying on the show ensured that Sushant would remain in the good books of Ekta unlike Rajeev and few other actors who had been blacklisted and could not manage to return to the Ekta camp when their BW careers bombed. Rather than quit the show, she negotiated with Ekta for her role in PR as well as future roles. Sushant's professionalism with Ekta + her staying on ensured that he stayed in her good books, he even got roles from her later.
Forget the sacrifices man.. the emotional support she rendered him is a different thing. As Sushant himself said, when people all around him were telling him how tv actors fail in bw, Ankita had total faith in him.. you just have to watch the interview on the last day of PR shooting to see how much blind love and confidence she had in him.. Sushant isn't that close to his family.. Ankita was his biggest support system.. she was happy being in the shadows while he basked away to glory on the red carpet.. HIS successes were always more mportant to her.. she flaunted and celebrated them as her own.. and even Sushant accepted it that she had adjusted a lot to fit into his life in BW.
Each to his own.. but in my eyes.. it certainly was worth a lot..
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