Jyotika marked her acting debut with ‘Doli Saja Ke Rakhna’, a Hindi film co-starring Akshaye Khanna. It opened to an underwhelming response at the box office and soon, Jyotika forayed into south cinema. She had been absent from Bollywood for more than 25 years until she made her comeback with ‘Shaitaan’. And now, Jyotika exclusively tells News18 Showsha that she didn’t have any filmmaker reaching out to her from Bollywood in all these years.Talking about what she believes could be the reason behind the same, she says, “I didn’t receive an offer from Hindi films even once. I drifted into south films 27 years ago and have only worked in south films ever since. My first Hindi film didn’t run well in theatres. It’s all very formula-based. Your first film needs to run for you to get more offers.”She also attributes it to facing competition from her female peers, who started their careers in Bollywood at the same time as her. “When I had started my career, there was an entire bandwagon of girls working with big production houses. Even my film was produced by a big banner but as fate would have it, it didn’t run. Luckily, I had signed a south film and diverted from Bollywood,” recalls Jyotika.The ‘Kaathal: The Core and Chandramukhi’ actor adds, “I would also like to bring it to notice that even that film didn’t work at the box office. But I got a lot of films based on how my performance in it was received. That stark difference between both industries was definitely there.”
