Saba Azad Lost 'Whole Career' After Dating 'Successful' Hrithik Roshan, Says 'People Thought I Didn't...'

Actress-singer Saba Azad has come down heavily on those who thought that she wouldn’t want to be working after getting in a relationship with Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan. Saba, in a series of stories on her Instagram account, revealed how she lost a bunch of voice-over offers after some people simply assumed that she wouldn’t need them anymore as she was with “a successful partner” like Hrithik.

Saba shared pictures of her getting behind the mic for the first time in two years and explained the reason behind her involuntary sabbatical as a voice artist. She also shared several popular advertisements for which she lent her voice. She wrote, “I never told anyone I’m quitting, never said I’m disinterested, I never altered my sessions fee, nothing was different from my end so what changed?”

She continued, “I was entirely clueless, I was clueless until a month ago when I met a director I used to work with regularly on a back to Bombay and I just couldn’t help myself and straight up asked him- “hey man I’m curious why don’t you guys call me for VOs anymore? What happened?” And what followed has my mind completely boggled. This is what he said- ‘oh we just thought you wouldn’t like to do something like voice over anymore… given.’ Well, you can imagine what was implied.”

Saba Azad did not mince any words as she wrote, “It’s important for me to share that this person is amazing, he is one of the best directors in the business, super progressive and chill and just like the kind of peeps I like to and with so this is the last thing I expected him to say- in short he said he didn’t think I would do a job like a VO given where you are in life…ie who I am dating.”

She slammed the regressive mindset of the people and said, “Are we really still living in the dark ages where we assume a woman in a relationship with a successful partner no longer has to put food on her own table?? Or pay her rent and bills? or take pride in her work and take care of herself and her family??? What kind of an archaic assumption to make??”

She continued, “So I basically lost a whole career that I absolutely loved and appreciated cause people thought I didn’t need to work anymore??? This is sadly a one dimensional patriarchal and regressive mindset.”