Ameesha Patel is currently basking in the success of her recent film Gadar 2 where she starred opposite Sunny Deol. It’s been just 2 weeks since the release and the film has already crossed Rs 400 crores at the box office. Gadar 2 is a sequel to the 2001 film Gadar which starred the same actors in the lead and was also a blockbuster. In a recent interview, the actress revealed that the filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, asked her to retire from the industry after her film Gadar, in 2001! 

Ameesha quoted, "Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, after watching Gadar, wrote a really beautiful letter, complimentary letter to me. And when I had a meeting with him, he said, ‘Ameesha, you should retire now.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because you’ve already achieved in two films what most people don’t achieve in their entire career. Once in a lifetime, a Mughal-e-Azam, a Mother India, a Pakeezah, a Sholay gets made. You had it in your second film. So what’s next?’ I didn’t understand it at that time because I was a kid, so new to the film world. Gadar set the bar so high that anything in my films that were superhits after that, whether it was Humraaz (2002), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) or Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), it was a straight comparison to Gadar."

Well it seems, Ameesha decided to stay, and two decades later, is still ruling the charts and hearts, alike. 

Source: Bollywood Hungama