MUMBAI: After playing some memorable and popular characters on TV, actress Krystle D'souza moved to OTT and then films. However, her journey has not been so easy. Krystle recently spoke about the trials and tribulations she faced in the entertainment field. She also opened up about how when she moved from Television to OTT, everyone asked her to stop hamming (overacting), how TV actors are often labelled and stereotyped. 

Krystle is super proud of her achievements and shares that the value of a TV actor is only known when they are given a monologue and asked to enact in 5 minutes. The actress further shared her views on TV actors making their mark in Bollywood and star kids being judged.  

She further adds, I still remember my first day of shooting, a 16 and a half year old girl on the set of a studio in Killick Nixon in Mumbai. I have all those flashes almost everyday of giving up. I remember after that first day of shooting, I went back to my house and sat with my mom and told her that I don't think I can do this. It was my parents who gave me that confidence that it is just day one, why don't you hang in there. Why don't you try harder. And little did I know that this is something that I don't think I can ever not do in my life. I don't know anything else other than acting in my life. I don't know if it is a fairytale journey, I know that's how it is being portrayed to the world, but there has been a lot of struggle. You know when they say your story looks like a fairytale and you bloomed like a butterfly, you don't know the struggle from a cocoon to a butterfly. Yes, I have struggled very hard and worked my way into finding projects, going for auditions, being there, picking up on opportunities that I can, never taking favours. Everything that I have done today, I can happily and gladly say that I have worked hard towards it. It may look like a fairytale but it is more like a butterfly tale

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She also revealed, ''So to begin with when I did TV, my biggest struggle was Hindi. Because coming from a Catholic background, born and brought up in Mumbai, convent educated, I did not know how to speak in proper Hindi. My parents, friends never spoke to me in Hindi. So just tutoring myself in Hindi, getting stronger there was a struggle in itself. And then when I moved from TV to OTT, I think the struggle was that everybody said don't ham, that TV actors ham (overact), the truth is TV actors never ham, the problem is the dhanan dhanan sound, the background music. No one is doing dhanan, dhanan on TV three times.''  

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Credits: TOI