Actor Boman Irani believes that one must taste success as well as failure to maintain excitement in life.
"Success without failure has no excitement in life.
I do believe in luck, but when it comes to getting a break in the film industry, hard work does matter.
"That makes me believe that if a person is hard working, knows exactly what it takes to be an actor, I think he or she will make it at some point in life, " Boman said during a session on "The Journey: Life, Learning & Leadership Lessons", organised by the Ficci Ladies Organisation (FLO) here on Friday.
The actor, who made his Bollywood acting debut with filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani's "Munna Bhai M. B. B. S. "
at the age of 44, said: "It wasn't hard for me to get a film, but I struggled during the years before I forayed into movies.
It takes a lifetime of hard work to get there, so the struggle had already happened. "
"I had kind of paid my dues doing 14 years of theatre.
When I got 'Munna Bhai M. B. B. S. ', I was so taken up by the story and I met Rajkumar Hirani for the first time and I said, 'This is a guy I'd like to work with'. "
"So getting a film was not as difficult as the years I'd spent before it as a photographer or as a theatre actor and before that as a shopkeeper.
So it wasn't much of a struggle, but the struggle of life was very much there for 44 years, " he added.