The recent debates around Bollywood have seen many actors, directors and writers express their views. Joining the list is Tamannaah Bhatia, who feels the film industry is an “easy target” and hopes this phase too shall pass.

“I think this is the worst phase that the industry is going through. It’s wrong and unfair to blame the industry for anything and everything. Because we’re always in the limelight, it just becomes easy to make statements. There is good and bad everywhere,” says the actor, who has done Hindi films such as Chand Sa Roshan Chehra (2005), Himmatwala (2013), Entertainment (2014) and will be seen alongside Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Bole Chudiyan.

 We ask Bhatia if she faced any bias as an outsider, given that she’d spoken about not getting substantial work in Bollywood while the South offered better scope. “If you’re dedicated, hardworking and talented, you’ll survive,” she says, adding, “I think being an insider doesn’t promise you anything more than a few opportunities. Most of the biggest stars today are outsiders. Only good work and talent sell.”