"An actor's life could be very sad. The largest of superstars in our country fade away after a while and are remembered only after they die. But what to do? It is vitally vulnerable, very sad, but that's the way it's. Nothing is permanent of their life," Bipasha told at the phone from Mumbai.
A classic example is that of Rajesh Khanna, Bollywood's first superstar. All but forgotten for nearly a decade, he emerged briefly in a slightly sad TV spot and the following thing we knew was that he was in hospital, came out, went in again and came out for the last time - only to die a couple of days later. Of course, there has been a nationwide outpouring of grief - and that is just the purpose Bipasha is making.
"Once you achieve success, you simply need to work, you do not need to be forgotten. It's an emotion that each actor worldwide, male or female, goes through," said the 33-year-old, who plays an actress whose career is at the downfall in her forthcoming film "Raaz 3".
Directed by filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, the movie, a sequel to 2009 film "Raaz", also stars Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta.
Bipasha says people need to know everything about an actor's life and that's the reason films just like the" Dirty Picture", "Raaz 3" and "Heroine" are made.
"Acting is an overly enigmatic line. Being a celeb people always need to know about your own life - what you might be? What you eat? The way you live? Where you go? Who're you dating? The way you breathe?"
"Raaz 3" is set struggle of an actor's life to score fame and success. And the actress says that an actor's life makes a captivating proposition for a film theme.
"It is a fascinating profession to make a movie on - either the actor's life or an actress'. In today's time everybody desires to be an actor. This is a fascinating profession and those need to know about behind the curtain. And that's there were such a lot of movies made at the same topic," said Bipasha, who made her acting debut with the 2001 film "Ajnabee".
So, are such films actually in accordance with real life incidents?
"These are all fictional and little drawn from reality. Such films are basically several types of storytelling of various directors, which make for extraordinarily interesting stories," added Bipasha.
Though she doesn't let all that bother her a lot, she says media and those will not forget that actors need some privacy.
"Poeple are always interested to grasp what you might be doing to your personal space. It makes great news for individuals to talk about over a meal. But they forget we're also humans, who've an individual life, struggles and we too undergo good and bad times.
"It is rather harsh from time to time to expect an actor to be okay with whatever is written about him. Actors and never super humans, they're normal people," said the actress, who has also worked in Tamil, Telugu and Bengali language films.
Known for her performances in films like "Corporate" and "Dhoom 2", Bipasha is game for well-written comedies.
"I'M dying to do a comedy. I am a funny girl and blessed with a mad sense of humour. I BELIEVE I WILL pull off comedy nicely. I DO NOT like slapstick comedy but, yes, situational comedy works for me," said the actress, who has done comedy films like "No Entry" and "THE ENTIRE Best".
Last seen in "Jodi Breakers", Bipasha's future projects include English film "Singularity" and director Suparn Varma's horror project "Aatma".
