Urmila
Matondkar
Talks
About
Facing
Nepotism
Right
From
The
Beginning
Of
Her
Career
Urmila
who
worked
as
a
child
artist
in
Shekhar
Kapoor's
Masoom,
made
her
debut
in
a
leading
role
with
Sunny
Deol's
Narsimha
in
1991.
That
year
besides
Urmila,
many
other
new
female
faces
were
launched,
and
most
of
them
were
star
kids.
Speaking
about
it,
Urmila
told
Barkha
Dutt,
"This
word
called
‘nepotism',
if
I
start
talking
about
it,
I
will
have
to
talk
for
quite
a
few
hours.
The
amount
of
it
that
I
have
faced,
in
spite
of
being
from
Mumbai,
was
quite
alarming,
to
say
the
least.
There
was
some
16-17
new
girls
who
were
introduced
that
year
and
out
of
them,
some
eight
or
nine
of
them
were
somebody
or
the
other's
daughters.
I
will
tell
you
a
few
of
them
-
Raveena
Tandon,
Karisma
Kapoor,
Pooja
Bhatt,
Kajol,
lots
of
them."
Urmila
Matondkar
Says
She
Was
Written
Off
Like
No
Other
Actor
In
The
History
Of
Indian
Cinema
"After
my
first
film,
I
made
a
decent
name
for
myself
as
a
good
dancer
and
a
decent
actor,
and
yet,
I
struggled
tremendously.
By
the
time
I
was
doing
Rangeela,
I
was
written
off
like
no
other
actor
in
the
history
of
cinema.
‘She
makes
faces',
‘her
language'...everything,"
Urmila
revealed
in
her
interview.
Urmila
Says
She
Was
Never
Given
Any
Credit
When
Rangeela
Became
A
Success
The
actress
told
Barkha
Dutt
that
even
when
Rangeela
became
a
success
in
1995,
she
was
never
given
any
credit
for
it.
Talking
about
it,
Urmila
said
that
everything
else
about
the
film
was
discussed,
but
not
her.
However,
she
chose
to
take
it
in
her
stride
and
focus
on
the
positives
of
the
film
industry.
Urmila
said,
"Of
course
there
is
nepotism.
Ask
me
about
it.
Ask
me
how
I
had
to
struggle,
how
I
had
to
battle
to
make
a
small
place
for
myself.
But
I
did
not
respond
by
lashing
out
at
everyone
and
becoming
toxic."
Urmila
Matondkar
Says
She
Was
Discriminated
Against
More
By
The
Media
Of
That
Time,
Than
People
In
The
Film
Industry
Revealing
the
reason,
the
Rangeela
actress
said
that
back
then,
film
magazines
had
immense
power
as
there
was
no
social
media.
Urmila
said
that
she
was
judged
by
a
different
yardstick
than
star
kids,
and
also
opened
up
about
not
even
getting
nominated
for
her
performances
at
awards
shows.