Beauty queen Manushi Chillar is not finding Bollywood as successful as the Miss Worlds before her. In particular, Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan), who after an eventful career on screen became one of the post popular and influential celebrities in India; and Priyanka Chopra, who not only took Bollywood by storm but became one of the industry’s highest-paid actresses before taking her craft to the West. Manushi, Miss World 2017, made her entry with big ticket films that did not work. She debuted in 2022 with ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, then followed it with ‘The Great Indian Family’ and ‘Operation Valentine’ in 2023, and ‘Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan’ this year. Her bad luck persists. She is now stuck with ‘Tehran’ that has been in the making forever (or has been made and is struggling for release) and has got one other film in hand – an actioner titled ‘Maalik’ written for Rajkummar Rao. Manushi has learned a lesson. She no longer wants to be under the pressure of acting in a big film and delivering a hit. “I realised you could have every ingredient in your soup, but it still might not be what the people want, and I have no control over it,” she admitted. So now she’s working on her skill set to become more secure as an actor. Strangely, while every other actor in the films Manushi starred in was critically whipped for its failure, she was not mentioned at all. Which is a good thing. Or it is bad?