Bollywood’s leading performer, Nora Fatehi who rocked the dance floors in chartbuster songs like ‘Dilbar’, ‘Kamariya’, ‘O Saki’, ‘Kusu Kusu’ and ‘Manike’ among several others, revealed that she was exploited at the start of her career and wasn’t even paid any money for some of these trending numbers.
“When I met the creators of these two songs… which I never got paid for, by the way, I did them for free,” she said.
“And I did them for free because I said that it’s not the time for me to make money, right now is the time for me to prove myself and to make a name, and to work with credible people.”
“All these things made more sense than to actually make money at that time, even though, trust me, I needed it. I needed money, but I was like, ‘It’s okay, let’s prioritize this first’,” Fatehi stated.
She also mentioned that she was struggling to pay her house rent right before shooting for these songs and even had no money to eat anything.
“I went through a phase where I was so skinny and borderline anorexic because I didn’t have money to eat much."
Nora Fatehi, who had been struggling in India since 2014,
On the work front, Nora Fatehi is awaiting the release of her debut Telugu film ‘Matka’, starring Varun Tej and Meenakshi Chaudhary.
She was last seen in actor Kunal Khemu’s directorial debut, ‘Madgaon Express’.