Having gained immense popularity as a dancing diva with Dilbar, Kusu, Kamariya, and O Saki Saki, among many others, Nora Fatehi is now on the road to carving a niche for herself as an actor. Last month, she was seen headlining Kunal Kemmu’s directorial debut, Madgaon Express, along with Divyenndu, Pratik Gandhi and Avinash Tiwary. The film opened to rave reviews and has been doing exceptionally well at the box office.
Nora, of Moroccan descent, was born in Canada and landed in Mumbai many years back to try her luck in the movies. She has often spoken about coming to India with just Rs 5000 in her pocket and how she was mocked at auditions for not knowing Hindi. Eventually, she decided to quit films but as luck would have it, she has become a sensation today. And now, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, she reveals her plans to adapt her life for the screen.
She tells us, “I have a story, and one day, I would want to make a documentary and talk about how this random girl named Nora belonging to the most random place in the world and who’s not even Indian came to Bollywood, assimilated, learned the language and broke barriers. She acted in a bunch of films with some good actors. People told her that she won’t be able to make it but she made it happen and became a global star. This is my story. I think my life is documentary-worthy.”
Along with Madgaon Express this year, she also headlined Vidyut Jammwal’s sports action film, Crakk – Jeetegaa Toh Jiyegaa. But unlike the former, Crakk tanked at the box office. But that didn’t bother Nora at all. “In my story, there’s no conversation about box office. That is someone else’s story. So, when a film doesn’t do well, I tell myself that it’s okay. At least, I got the chance to be in that film,” she states.
The box office has never been a point of concern for Nora. She tells us that while producers have roped her in for dance numbers in films for greater visibility of their projects, she has never done films anticipating box office euphoria. “A lot of people asked me how I felt about it [the failure of Crakk] and I told them that I felt great. I didn’t come to this industry for my films to clock big numbers. I’m not a box-office actor,” the Batla House and Street Dancer 3D actor candidly shares.
Nora continues, “I don’t expect my films to open at Rs 5 crore on a Friday and then go on to garner Rs 30 crore by the weekend. That’s not my game. My game is very different. I want to solidify my name in the industry, continue to be in the industry, change certain things, break certain stereotypes, work, and be offered work. The other stuff is not for me to think about.”
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