Neena Gupta on losing out on Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet': 'Dimple Kapadia got the part even when…'

Neena Gupta has been a part of the Hindi film industry for more than three decades and made a solid comeback with films like Mulk, Veere Di Wedding, Badhaai Ho back in 2018. Her journey has been anything but easy and she reflected upon the same in an interview recently with News18. Gupta revealed, “I was from NSD and was a good actor. I was very new and thought that if I do one role in a Hindi film, I would be flooded with offers, but that didn’t happen. That’s why I feel jealous of young actors. I keep thinking of all the amazing parts I would get to play if I had started my career at this point because OTT has changed everything.” On missing out an opportunity to act in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet I feel like an outsider even now. I’ve been dissuaded from raising my voice for something that was wrong. I was told to let it go and that nobody would listen to me because I’m not as famous as another co-star. This is how this industry works. I still give auditions and get rejected. I went to LA this one time for a day just to meet (Christopher) Nolan [for Tenet]. But Dimple (Kapadia) got the part even though she didn’t travel to LA to meet him. Firstpost reviews Tenet The publication wrote- “In focusing so heavily on exposition, Nolan’s script reduces multiple strong actors (Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel) to little more than lecturers on the film’s concepts - or worse, on the minutiae of action set-pieces we’re about to see play out visually anyway. The two principal characters have no lives, goals, or emotional attachments outside their tactical missions; Washington’s character is literally referred to, in dialogue and credits, as The Protagonist.”