What Are 15 Qualities To Be A Bollywood Actor? How To Meet

Arshad Warsi, once a struggler now a Bollywood actor

Though not easy, the success factors mentioned below can be developed with planning and training

You should have 15 qualities

1. You are a close relative of Bollywood top superstar, producer or a director
2. Good looks will definitely help you (especially in TV serials) 
3. Hot body and its maintenance.
4. Good voice. You can develop by various vocal exercises
5. Good acting abilities. You can learn from this blog,  by joining our courses or with online free help!
6. A pleasant and agreeable nature  
7. A graduate, good command on HINDI and an ability to speak well in ENGLISH
8. Excellent ability to memorize and that too, quickly. This is of paramount importance, especially in TV serials where you get your lines just before the shot! There are memorizing techniques available
9. Dancing abilities for an overall development into a good actor
10. Good networking capabilities- building up contacts online, offline with industry people.
11. The tremendous amount of patience and to be ready for a prolonged struggle 
12. Must have sufficient and regular inflow of money to live and for various necessary requirements needed for a success
13. Emotional stability:  Must be thick skinned to accept failures, criticism, and neglect
14. Must be able to build up your psychological self to be able to stake anything to be a successful actor. Nothing else should matter till you achieve your goal
15. Should be ready to learn till death

How Should You Develop Yourself the above?

• Learn professional acting either by carefully selecting a good school or if in doubt, the best option could be a personal and professional acting coach. with whom you may learn and develop many of the below-mentioned qualities
• Take care of your face by daily working on it like cleaning, protecting it from a  harsh weather, dust, excess moisture and infection
• Join gym or work at home, work on your body and develop a good figure. Take care of your diet to maintain it. To shape your body, a high protein diet is essential like pulses (Dals), beans etc for vegetarians and chicken, eggs, and fish for non-vegetarians
• Improve your mental health and be strong. Join yoga classes to learn relaxation and mental balance.
• Learn dancing by joining a good dancing school
• Make a professional portfolio of about 5 to 10 pictures, to begin with, where you look exactly as you are. No dark glasses (Let casting directors see your eyes!).
• Complete your graduation because it's a long struggle with financial instability. Being a graduate and having the additional skills like IT, Marketing, Teaching, etc. may help you to support financially to fulfill your dream to be an actor. 
• Knowing spoken English well  helps you to network with cine industry and creates a favorable impression, apart from being comfortable with  script dialogs in English for a film / TV serial 
• Start building your contacts in the industry by networking through creating and updating of your profile/ page on a regular basis on social sites like facebook, twitter Linkedin, emailing your profile, monologs, your website, a video introduction and showreel to casting directors and other relevant people.
• Register yourself with at least 3 to 4 good coordinators 
• Do not restrict your efforts only to one field, e.g. Bollywood films. Enter in modeling, TV serials, commercial ads, and print. Just hit all opportunities available to train yourself, initially, Remember, you can not be highly selective and dictate your terms in the beginning.Dictating own terms is the privilege of stars only
• Remember, you are a "product"  in a highly competitive market and therefore, acting is a business. You have to be a good businessman or a woman. You can't live in emptiness without money or on a charity of your parents / relatives / friends!
• Finally, have confidence and faith in yourself and go on struggling, at least for 3 years

If you really want to implement the above and find it difficult to do it yourself, Join a good personal acting coach