Nora Fatehi gets emotional talking about beginning of her career

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Well, we all know how difficult it is for the actors who come from outside to make a place for themselves in the film fraternity. This Moroccan beauty also faced many traumatic situations, which makes her emotional every time she speaks.

Well, we all know how difficult it is for the actors who come from outside to make a place for themselves in the film fraternity. This Moroccan beauty also faced many traumatic situations, which makes her emotional every time she speaks.

Recently Nora Fatehi has won her first Dadasaheb Phalke awards for being "Performer of the Year", and actress cum dancer's happiness knows no bounds. Her back to back music videos, 'Nach Meri Rani' and  'Chhor Denge', is still roaring over the Internet. But how was her initial days?

Recently Nora Fatehi has won her first Dadasaheb Phalke awards for being "Performer of the Year", and actress cum dancer's happiness knows no bounds. Her back to back music videos, 'Nach Meri Rani' and  'Chhor Denge', is still roaring over the Internet. But how was her initial days?

Recalling the beginning of her career and coming to India, Nora Fatehi shared in an interview with Dubai's Youtuber Anas Bukhash, "We were so excited and so naive. When I reached India, it was nothing like (what I had imagined). I was thinking I'll get picked up by a limousine and a butler, and they're going to take me to a suite, and I would go to my auditions in that limo. It was nothing like that. I had the biggest slap in my face. The bullying, the rejection, the traumatic experience that I went through." 

Recalling the beginning of her career and coming to India, Nora Fatehi shared in an interview with Dubai's Youtuber Anas Bukhash, "We were so excited and so naive. When I reached India, it was nothing like (what I had imagined). I was thinking I'll get picked up by a limousine and a butler, and they're going to take me to a suite, and I would go to my auditions in that limo. It was nothing like that. I had the biggest slap in my face. The bullying, the rejection, the traumatic experience that I went through." 

"If someone had told me that these are all the things I was going to go through -- 'You're going to meet evil people, they're going to steal your passport, you're going to get deported, you're going to go back to Canada and people are going to laugh at you. How do you go from a developed country to a developing country? You're going to go back to India, you're going to fight, learn the language, and you're going to meet people who're going to laugh at you on the way, they're going to laugh in your face'," she further added.

"If someone had told me that these are all the things I was going to go through -- 'You're going to meet evil people, they're going to steal your passport, you're going to get deported, you're going to go back to Canada and people are going to laugh at you. How do you go from a developed country to a developing country? You're going to go back to India, you're going to fight, learn the language, and you're going to meet people who're going to laugh at you on the way, they're going to laugh in your face'," she further added.

Talking about how Bollywood's casting directors would react to her Hindi accent, she said, "They would start laughing together, high-fiving each other."

Talking about how Bollywood's casting directors would react to her Hindi accent, she said, "They would start laughing together, high-fiving each other."