Radhikka Madan was told she has a ‘tedha jaw’.
Radhikka Madan says she was told to change her wardrobe to get more work. She also reveals getting botox is interrelated with self-esteem and she’s open to it.
Botox, fillers, and rhinoplasty are terms not unheard of. Every other week, Bollywood actors end up being on the receiving end of incessant social media trolling for getting jobs done on their faces and bodies. A while back, Radhikka Madan had revealed how in her initial years of being an actor, she would have people around her pointing out how she wasn’t ‘pretty enough’ and that she didn’t have a flattering jawline.
Now, in an exclusive chat with Showsha, Radhikka, who has consciously chosen to not succumb to any pressures of vanity, says that she doesn’t look down on her peers who have gone under the knife. “I don’t judge people who get things done because it makes them feel confident and improves their self-image, which is very important,” she tells us.
Talking about how she never felt the need to give in to showbiz’s high beauty standards despite many doing it around her, the Sarfira and Sajini Shinde Ka Viral Video actor says, “I didn’t feel the need at that point. People used to tell me tell me that my jaw is little tedha. Did they expect me to sit with a scale and measure it (laughs)? I was quite surprised because I was Kareena Kapoor in my head. Maybe they couldn’t see it. I didn’t buy that at that point.”
However, she’s quick to add that if in the future, she wants to go through a feature augmentation process, she’ll do it without giving it much thought. “I still don’t buy it but maybe I will after a few years. I don’t know but I may just get it done. It all depends on the kind of self-image I have at that point. I wish it remains the way it is right now. In my mind, I’m still Kareena Kapoor. And even if it’s not, I won’t judge myself. So, I’m pretty much okay with all of that,” remarks Radhikka candidly.
Apart from suggestions on getting facial jobs done, she divulges that she also received ‘a lot of free advice’ to get a kick-start in the entertainment industry. “I’ve heard things like ‘aaj raat ke baad tumhaari life badalne waali hai’. I kept waiting till the day after but nothing really happened (laughs). I was even told to not step out wearing the clothes that I usually do and that I should change my wardrobe. I was asked to look a certain way to make an impression,” she says.
Radhikka adds, “I kept thinking how and why none of these advices were related to work. Then there were some people who told me that I was doing way too arty films and that I should shift to commercial cinema and vice-versa. I felt like telling them to first decide what they wanted me to do. I always listen to everyone. I, in fact, tell them, ‘Bilkul correct hai. Yeh hi hona chahiye.’ But I always do what I think is right.”
