In August 2022, T-Series announced a film titled 100% which was to star John Abraham, Riteish Deshmukh, Nora Fatehi and Shehnaaz Gill. It was billed as a roller coaster comedy about love, marriage, family, spies and action. It was dubbed as Sajid Khan’s directorial comeback after Humshakals and was set for a theatrical release during Diwali 2023. However, last year, reports started doing the rounds that the film has been put on the backburner after John exited it for reasons unknown.
And now, for the first time, one of its lead actors shares an update on the film and reacts to the speculations of it being shelved. In an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, Nora states that it’s ‘not (happening) anymore’. As an afterthought, she adds, “It’s not happening in the way it was said it was going to happen. They’re restructuring and changing certain things. But it might even happen, who knows! Let’s see.”
Apart from 100%, Nora has films like Matka with Varun Tej and Remo D’Souza’s Be Happy with Abhishek Bachchan, where she will be seen playing the protagonist. While she has earned popularity as a dancing diva with chartbusters like Manohari, Dilbar, Kusu Kusu, Kamariya, O Saki Saki, Manike and Jehda Nasha, to her credit, she’s excited for a new chapter in her career as an actor now.
However, she has never judged filmmakers for approaching her for dance numbers in their films in her earlier years in the industry. Talking about how she recognises their approach when they offer her dance numbers vis-à-vis acting roles, she tells us, “I see the difference but I also don’t think that one is better than the other. Both qualify as work and you’ve to bring something to the table in either of the cases.”
She, in fact, never had any qualms about being roped in to up the glam quotient and bankability of a project. “If you’re coming to bring the glam factor in a film and uplift its commercial value, that’s a big deal too. Not a lot of people are able to do that. So I do a dance number in a film with a lot of pride. Getting to have your name attached to a project knowing that it will help it commercially is a big deal. It means that I must have done something great to reach this point,” Nora remarks.
For her, getting to have ‘screen presence’ in a film meant more than anything else and seeing her dreams gradually turning to reality filled her with joy. “It’s work at the end of the day. Once upon a time, I was a ‘nobody’. I was in my hood called Jane and Finch in Toronto hustling and doing four-five jobs. Today, a filmmaker is thinking about me and wanting to cast me and that’s helping me be in front of millions of people on a cinema screen. That’s a big deal for me. I look at it like that more than anything else,” opines the Madgaon Express and Crakk actor.
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