Pooja Bhatt: Terms like small-time actors being used to degrade people

Mumbai, Sep 11 (IANS) Actress Pooja Bhatt feels no one can dismiss anyone by calling names like small-time actors, B-grade or C-grade.Pooja along with filmmaker Hansal Mehta took a stand after actor Arjun Kapoor was called a 'small-time actor' on a news channel."Nobody is a "small-time" actor. Get that straight f**khead (name of the TV journalist). Enough of this demeaning and abuse of our profession," Mehta tweeted.Pooja agreed with Hansal, and wrote: "I agree with Hansal Mehta when he says "Nobody is a small time actor". People use terms like the above & ‘out of work' actor, ‘B' or ‘C' grade actor as a means to dismiss & degrade. The joy & trial of being an actor/artist is that at some point you are going to be out of work.""That's what makes ALL artistes across board such courageous people. To constantly embrace uncertainty, to plod on & put your best face forward even after enduring failure. To follow your heart & hone your art no matter how average or brilliant people think you are-that takes guts," she added.Pooja also gave a special shout out to people associated with showbiz, writing: "So here's to the artists, the makers, the entertainers, the believers. We are warriors! Our tools are our hearts, our senses. Our strength is our vulnerability, our capacity to fall & rise again. Success is temporary, failure guaranteed & we still do what we do. Not everyone's cup of tea!"
--IANS sug/vnc