MUMBAI: Jamie Lever, who is veteran actor Johnny Lever’s daughter, is leaving no stone unturned to entertain her fans and also leave them in splits with her antics.
Needles to say, she has become immensely popular among her fans. However, the journey has not been so easy. In an interview with a leading daily she spoke about the same. She told ETimes TV, “Back in 2012, when I started there were a few comedy shows coming up where Bharti ji's entry happened and there were some new female comedians, who started coming on TV and getting noticed. That was a huge motivation for me also that 'ladkiyan kar sakti hain, aisi bhi baat nahin hai.' There were a lot of female actresses who used to do comedy in films and television like Tun Tun ji, Himani Shivpuri ji who played various characters but there weren't comedians per se. This was a male-dominated field but I never took that pressure.”
Further, she added, “When I decided to do comedy, I thought that I am an artist and artists don't have any gender. I have to fight my battle as an artist. 'Main bhid gayi, main ghus gayi' but then I realised that people see you differently, they won't understand that you've entered as an artist, they still see you as a woman. So, that was a small struggle where I had to break people's mindset. I remember when I used to go on stage in the early days, it would take the audience a couple of minutes because there is this perception that girls aren't funny. But, I am telling you, girls are very funny, they have so many issues, and we are all over the place with funny stories to tell. People have even told me on my face, 'Yaar, ladkiyan funny nahin hoti, try bhi mat karo' but I was like, I am not going to let that affect me, I am just going to do what I know. I was persistent and did not let these things bother me at all. I feel that if you take these comments into your head and sit in one place, then you can't move forward in life.”
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CREDIT: ETIMES TV
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