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Actress and former beauty queen Diya Mirza said that Bollywood runs on hard mentality, acknowledging only the successful films of actors and not thier talent. She is missing from big screen since her cameo in the box office dud Krazzy 4.

Diya hopes that her off-beat film Bits and Pieces opposite Rahul Bose is released soon. She attributes her absence to the failure of her films and the industry’s ‘biased’
attitude towards her.

She said thatit was important for her to back off from films. She started her career on a good note with big banners, good producers and good actors, but the films didn’t do too well.

Diya won the Miss Asia Pacific beauty pageant in 2000 and forayed into Bollywood in 2001 with Gautham Menon’s Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein opposite R. Madhavan. The film did average business at the box office. But after that most of her films including Deewaanapan, Tumko Naa Bhool Paayenge and Tehzeeb sank without a trace.

In seven years, Diya has failed to deliver a memorable performance in the lead. She was seen in various movie like hits like Parineeta, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. and Shootout at Lokhandwala. She also made special appearances in box office hits Heyy Babby and Om Shanti Om.

Not many know that the actress also worked in an offbeat project, National Award winning director Manmohan Mahapatra’s Bits and Pieces opposite Rahul Bose. But the film is still awaiting release. She said that Bits and Pieces is ready and sitting in the can since last year.

Diya currently has five projects in her kitty - Acid Factory, Johnny Mastana, Alibaug, Kaun Bola and Kisaan, but she is more excited about Kaun Bola, which is Arshad Warsi’s first home production. She plays a girl called Gehna in Kaun Bola that is perhaps the meatiest role she has ever played.

It is a character she instantly fell in love with. She is perhaps the most real character she has done in commercial movies so far. There are very few characters that are so real that you can associate with. There is a lot of her in the film. The film is written by Arshad and also stars Boman Irani. It is a funny, light-hearted as well as an emotional film. It is not a senseless comedy like we have these days.

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