Chitrangda Singh made a successful return after seven years to the big screen with Housefull 5.

Now, the actor is working on another major film, Battle of Galwan, starring Salman Khan. Ask her if she missed the trill of theatres in this time and she says, “It is one of the bane of being an actor that you just have to sit and wait.”

The actor adds, “It's about the patience when you are waiting between two projects. During this time you are having to say no to certain parts even though you're not working, because you're not getting to work on the stuff that you want to work on. Even when something comes along and the makers want you, but you just have to say no. That phase is something all creative people go through as that is the bane of this whole profession."

According to Chitrangda, she concentrated on production during this period in addition to waiting for quality work.

“I tried to set up another project as a producer which is a biopic we are putting together and there is a web series that I'm also working on. I just love the medium, and I just want to be involved in it one way or the other. Even if good work is not coming, I'd rather be sitting with writers in the meantime and maybe help put something together and develop something,” she says.

But why weren’t good offers coming her way? “One thing I get to hear often is that people think I don't live in Mumbai. Sometimes they feel like I'm probably between two cities and they are unsure whether I will take up a project or not due to that. So, often they don’t even reach out,” she opines, adding that her ‘seductress’ image also added to it. “I got similar kinds of roles offered to me in different films. So maybe that tag also played a part,” she says.

The actor does acknowledge that she occasionally regrets the projects she turned down, even though she accepts the decisions she made.