Akshaye Khanna: In our line of work, it's more difficult to handle success than failure
| Nov 17, 2017, 15:45 IST
Actor Akshaye Khanna says that it's not easy to deal with the audience's dislike or indifference towards an actor’s work. The actor who has been a part of many successful films, said, "My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it." He further added, "If I am running a business and making a loss, nobody knows about it. Our success and failures are public. To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle."
Talking about dealing with the success of a film, he said, "I honestly feel in our line of work, it's more difficult to handle success than failure. To handle success maturely, especially over a long period of time it is more difficult to maintain." Talking about the deciding factors for the success of an actor, he said, "There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble."
He also said that he doesn't fear on losing out on work. "You can do the best, work hard, but at the end of the day the audience decides whether you are relevant to them as an artiste or not. These things are completely out of your hands. The audience will, of course, give you a shelf life," he said. "That's a scary part of being an artiste in whatever art form you are in. One has to make peace with it. There's no second option," he concluded.
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Talking about dealing with the success of a film, he said, "I honestly feel in our line of work, it's more difficult to handle success than failure. To handle success maturely, especially over a long period of time it is more difficult to maintain." Talking about the deciding factors for the success of an actor, he said, "There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble."
He also said that he doesn't fear on losing out on work. "You can do the best, work hard, but at the end of the day the audience decides whether you are relevant to them as an artiste or not. These things are completely out of your hands. The audience will, of course, give you a shelf life," he said. "That's a scary part of being an artiste in whatever art form you are in. One has to make peace with it. There's no second option," he concluded.
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