Raveena Tandon is more familiar with the Bollywood audiences, however, Kollywood too knows her as Kamal Haasan’s pair in Aalavandhan. In a recent conversation with Pinkvilla, the actress entailed her struggles in filmdom.
"I didn't have godfathers, wasn't part of camps and didn't have heroes promoting me. I was not sleeping around with heroes for roles or having affairs. In a lot of cases, I was considered arrogant because I wasn't pandering to what the heroes wanted me to do - laughing when they wanted me to laugh, sitting when they asked me to sit,” she was quoted as saying.
"There used to be these cabals which used to have the heroes, their girlfriends and their journalist chamchas. What used to shock me was that a lot of these female journalists would do something like this to another woman. When they now stand up and say, we're feminists and writing ulta-feminist columns. I'm like really? That time, they never supported me because the hero promised them the next cover. There was a monopoly happening at that time,” she added.
"I may not have lost movies because of honesty but a lot of dirt was written about me. I never clawed on people's back, played cut throat politics and never stepped on people's toes either," she said further.