Success without failure has no excitement: Boman

New Delhi May 5 (IANS) Actor Boman Irani believes that one must taste success as well as failure to maintain excitement in life.

Success without failure has no excitement in life. I do believe in luck but when it comes to getting a break in the film industry hard work does matter.

That makes me believe that if a person is hard working knows exactly what it takes to be an actor I think he or she will make it at some point in life Boman said during a session on The Journey: Life Learning & Leadership Lessons organised by the Ficci Ladies Organisation (FLO) here on Friday.

The actor who made his Bollywood acting debut with filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani s Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. at the age of 44 said: It wasn t hard for me to get a film but I struggled during the years before I forayed into movies. It takes a lifetime of hard work to get there so the struggle had already happened.

I had kind of paid my dues doing 14 years of theatre. When I got ‘Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. I was so taken up by the story and I met Rajkumar Hirani for the first time and I said ‘This is a guy I d like to work with .

So getting a film was not as difficult as the years I d spent before it as a photographer or as a theatre actor and before that as a shopkeeper. So it wasn t much of a struggle but the struggle of life was very much there for 44 years he added.

--IANS
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