'Saathiya' actress Sandhya Mridul shares video of not getting work: 'If you don't have followers...'

‘Saathiya’ actress Sandhya Mridul, who was also seen in films like Force, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, and Ragini MMS 2, revealed in a video on Instagram recently how she has not been getting work due to less number of followers on social media.

The actress said in the video, “There’s a new situation, that if you don’t have followers, then you won’t get work.” She added, “If a person doesn’t get work, then how will they get famous, and if they’re not famous, then how’ll they get followers?”

Sandhya Mridul also revealed, “On top of that, my manager told me, ‘Ma’am, you didn’t get that role because you didn’t have many followers or you look rich.’” She joked, “My look is rich, not me.”

Jaaved Jaaferi , who is known for his acting and dancing skills, recently shared that the actor’s social media numbers cannot translate into box office numbers taking examples of Salman Khan and Urvashi Rautela.

“I don’t agree that these things make a star. You can have an initial push visibly. But you can have 70 -100 million followers but does that translate to ticket sales. It doesn’t. Urvashi Rautela has 70 million followers, does her followers translate to ticket buying audience. Let’s take 10 million of her followers which is 1 crore people, if those 1 crore people would have bought ₹250 film ticket, the film would have made ₹100 crore. It doesn’t work like that,” Jaaved said while talking to The Humans of Bombay.

“Rajinikanth sahab is the biggest star. Where does he promote his film? If it’s a good film it will run. At the end of the day they might come for a star but sometimes some stars don’t even get that kind of opening. A  Salman Khan  film can get a ₹10 – 5 crore opening and can also get ₹50 crore opening. It’s what the people sense with the trailer. All Salman Khan films aren’t getting ₹50 crore opening. It’s all about the trailer,” he added.