Why Priyanshu Chatterjee never took off?

I think early 2000s were tough for newcomers in general. There aren't many actors or actresses who entered films at that time who made it. There were too many of them, a new one entering every other film. On top of that this new batch of star kids and very good looking models had entered. There weren't enough good movies going around.  And one or two good ones were taken by other superstars who were all working at that time. Even the star kids who entered Bollywood in early 2000s failed despite all their connections... Zayed, Tusshar, Fardeen, Esha, Uday, Tanissha, Arya Babbar, don't know if I should mention Abhishek, boy struggled from the beginning.

Also Priyanshu really had nothing to offer, like yeah he was okay but he wasn't exceptional in any one area that would've made fans want to root for him. He wasn't as good looking as John, Arjun Rampal, Shahid, Hrithik or Aftab. Not a great dancer. Not an action hero. Not a comedy hero which was big at the time. Who wanted to see Priyanshu romance when Hrithik was at his hottest and SRK? He failed to create a specific space for himself like many other people in his time.  

Not a Nepo kid 

Even adults back then, like common men... they were hot.. Not that there aren't any handsome men presently, but those men until mid 2000s were different, I can't explain, that kind of mature hotness is absent these days, be it cinema or real life.

Should've been born earlier, i don't like this generation 😔

But BW like people who either look feminine like Ranbir or Varun, or gunda like Ranveer, there is no in between

He had to play second fiddle even to an Arjun Rampal in that Ash movie. He wasn't a starkid nor had connections.