Manisha Koirala, the actress of the yesteryear still doing a fabulous job in Bollywood talks about her life and journey in Bollywood! She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. Manisha says for a decade, she had abused her body. The actress who was detected with cancer, underwent the treatment and came back stronger feels that cancer came into her life like a gift!
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As she completes six years of being cancer-free, she shares her story in her memoir, “Healed: How Cancer Gave Me a New Life”! Talking about her book, she says, “It has taken a lot of courage to confront and relive my experiences. But I needed to do so in order to become a true storyteller for the readers’ sake as well as my own. The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me. In hindsight, on a dark, lonely night, I still wonder what it could have been and whether it would have been better or worse.”
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“I think cancer came into my life as a gift. My vision is sharper, my mind clearer, my perspective realigned. I have succeeded in transforming my passive-aggressive anger and anxiety into more peaceful expressions,” Manisha Koirala writes.
“At first it was difficult for me to take on the role of a character artist as I had been used to playing the heroine. Then I saw the blessing in this. Having plunged into the depths of my emotions, I could now express the intricate complexities, deeper nuances and profounder layers of each character. Its unfamiliarity and expanse scared me. For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience. Unsure of how I should be behaving and interacting on the film set, I hid myself behind books. They protected me from my fear of interacting with everyone who seemed to be so sure of themselves,” she says.
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Manisha Koirala then decided to do something to overcome her shyness and feeling of awkwardness. “Alcohol came to my rescue. I loved the feeling of confidence it gave me, loosening me up, wiping out my inhibitions. Fortified by drinks, my shyness disappeared and I became quite at ease while socialising. Emboldened, I took to drinking more and more, she writes. I think reading a lot of books does that to you. I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand”
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