What Next For Jacqueline?

Big   relief  for  the beleaguered Jacqueline  Fernandez from the  Delhi High Court which has  granted her  bail  in the Sukesh Chandrasekhar scam case.

But  Jacqueline’s troubles are far from over.

A  filmmaker  friend  of  hers who  doesn’t want to be named says she  brought this  on herself. “All her  friends  in the  industry warned her against  this association(with  Chandrasekhar) . But she  turned  a blind eye  and a deaf ear for obvious reasons.Now  all her friends have deserted her.”

Jacqueline  was  nowhere to be seen in her  (former) best friend  Sonam Kapoor Ahuja’s celebrations on motherhood.  Sources say  her friends  are  all “keeping a safe distance.”

So are the producers.

There will be  no long queue  to sign her just because she has been granted bail. The two major A-listers who were inclined to work with her, namely  Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan, are  not  likely to make  any announcements of films with  Jacqueline  as a co-star.

So where  does  her  career  go from here? It will be difficult  but not impossible for Jacqueline  to get back on her feet. Even  the South industry has for now  closed  its door on her. But according to  a  filmmaker  who has worked with her in the  past, “The one thing she  needs  to do is, be patient, to not  sign  the wrong films in desperation.She should rely on her buffer funds  for now  and wait for  the  industry to forget this  episode.  In the past  Sanjay Dutt, Vinod Khanna  and Parveen Babi have  been  given a  second chance. Why not Jacqueline?”