Singer Neha Bhasin has witnessed a difficult time and have hit the bottom. It was started with her participation in a reality TV show which affected her deeply and had to put up “a brave face”. She felt that it was not the right time to express and acknowledge the issues.
While the singer did not regret her decision to join the show despite being trolled and facing criticism, she further said, “Just because I don’t tell my story like a victim doesn’t mean I laid on a bed of roses with no thorns. You never feel you might hit rock bottom at this age, but you can. And people think rock bottom means financial but it can be emotional too. The (last) year was tough because I suddenly lost sense of who I was. I was physically present in public but I wasn’t there mentally.”
Adding to it she was not frequently working in the ongoing year which left her with questions post “one year of sitting at home”. “It got me thinking about what next. Am I done with that area (music)? It felt as if I was starting up fresh . Through all of that, I kept working, fighting everything. I am so grateful that I am out of it and I have more gratitude towards everything now than before,” she elucidates.
Even though she upholds a fairly decent work profile, she is not contended with it. “I came into the business because I love music. It was my childhood dream to become a pop star and I achieved that at a very young age. I understood that this journey is an individualistic journey where you are the captain of your own journey where people come and there are a lot of wolves at the door. Even today it annoys me that some four artists are called for a festival. Why wasn’t I amongst them?,” she further says.
When asked about what she means to say by the wolves at the door? She responded, “I started out young and when you see someone young you obviously feel that it is easy to manipulate such a person. Even when I was in Viva, a lot of people who were the heads at that point from making my life hell because I wouldn’t just give in.”
