{"id":393796,"date":"2026-04-23T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:37:07","slug":"mrunal-thakur-says-she-had-to-let-go-high-paying-tv-roles-ive-been-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393796\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrunal Thakur Says She &#8216;Had To Let Go&#8217; High-Paying TV Roles: &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been A Millionaire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Mrunal Thakur recently reflected on her early television career and the choices she made while navigating success and creative fulfilment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the opportunities she received at the time, she told <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXd-mPEjPai\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India Forums<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a millionaire. I have had opportunities in TV where they offered me big fat money. I have to let it go. Big money did excite me at a certain point, but I realised that I would lose my creativity, I would lose the person that I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mrunal Thakur&#8217;s TV Career<\/p>\n<p>Mrunal Thakur began her acting journey on Indian television while she was still in college.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She first gained attention with her lead role as Gauri Bhosle in Mujhse Kuchh Kehti&#8230;Yeh Khamoshiyaan (2012-2013), where she starred opposite Mohit Sehgal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She later appeared in a guest role in Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek &#8211; Arjun (2013), playing journalist Sakshi Anand.<\/p>\n<p>Her breakthrough came with Kumkum Bhagya (2014-2016), where she portrayed Bulbul Arora Khanna alongside Sriti Jha. The show brought her widespread recognition and earned her the ITA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series, centred around two sisters managing a marriage hall, became a major success and helped establish her as a familiar face in Indian households.<\/p>\n<p>During her television career, Thakur also participated in reality shows such as Box Cricket League 1 (2014) and Nach Baliye 7 (2015).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She made several guest appearances, including roles in Saubhagyalakshmi (2016) and international projects like the Indonesian serial Nadin, where she played Tara.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She stepped away from television in 2016 following her stint on Kumkum Bhagya.<\/p>\n<p>Mrunal Thakur&#8217;s Film Career<\/p>\n<p>After leaving TV, Mrunal Thakur transitioned to films, starting with Marathi cinema through projects like Vitti Dandu and Surajya.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She made her Hindi film debut with Love Sonia (2018), where she played the titular role and explored the issue of human trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She then appeared in supporting roles in films such as Super 30 (2019) and Batla House (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, she has been part of several Hindi films, including Toofaan (2021), Dhamaka (2021), Jersey (2022), Gumraah (2023), Aankh Micholi (2023), Selfiee (2023), and Pippa (2023).<\/p>\n<p>Thakur also found major success in Telugu cinema.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her performance in Sita Ramam (2022), opposite Dulquer Salmaan, was widely appreciated and earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress &#8211; Telugu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She continued her work in the industry with films like Hi Nanna (2023) and The Family Star (2024), along with a cameo in Kalki 2898 AD (2024).<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen in Adivi Sesh&#8217;s Dacoit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Mrunal Thakur recently reflected on her early television career and the choices she made while navigating success&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,98243,203450,203449,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-393796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-mrunal-thakur","tag-mrunal-thakur-shows","tag-mrunal-thakur-tv-career","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}