After
winning
the
Miss
Universe
pageant
in
1994,
Sushmita
Sen
made
her
acting
debut
with
Mahesh
Bhatt's
Dastak
in
1996
and
went
on
to
star
in
many
critically
acclaimed
and
commercially
successful
movies.
But
after
working
in
films
for
over
a
decade,
the
actress
left
everyone
surprised
when
she
took
a
sabbatical
before
making
her
recent
comeback
on
OTT
platform
with
Ram
Madhvani's
web
series
Aarya.
Recently
in
a
video
interaction
with
film
critic
Sucharita
Tyagi
for
Critics
Choice
Short
Film
and
Series
Awards'
Facebook
page,
Sushmita
explained
the
reason
behind
her
decade
long
absence
from
Bollywood
and
why
she
returned
back
to
the
screens
with
a
OTT
series
and
not
a
film.
The
actress
said
that
mainstream
cinema
wasn't
offering
her
the
kind
of
work
that
she
wanted
to
take
up
and
that
a
lot
of
it
was
because
of
a
pre-conceived
notion
about
her
age
and
screen-age.
Sushmita
said,
"I
think
the
10-year
hiatus
set
the
priorities
in
order.
It
told
me
what
I
need
to
do
and
what
not
to
do.
Mainstream
cinema
wasn't
giving
me
what
I
wanted.
A
lot
of
it
was
a
pre-conceived
notion
of
my
age
and
my
screen
age
and
that
I
hadn't
worked
for
ten
years."
The
Main
Hoon
Na
actress
went
on
to
say
that
she
missed
out
on
opportunites
because
of
her
own
inability
and
reluctance
to
network
with
people.
Sushmita
admitted,
"I
don't
know
what
the
mindset
was
or
maybe
I
was
not
putting
myself
out
there.
I
have
never
been
good
at
that.
I
am
no
good
at
networking.
It
did
not
work
for
me."
Speaking
about
work,
the
actress
was
last
seen
in
the
second
season
of
Disney+Hotstar's
web
series
Aarya.