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sanya
malhotra:
my friends and
family Keep me
grounded
ctress Sanya Malhotra, who if only people around you
currently has three films in her kitty, make you feel that.”
Asays her sense of achievement Sanya has also finished
does not go to her head as her family and shooting the film
friends keep her grounded. ‘Photograph’, directed by
She is currently busy working with National ‘The Lunchbox’ director
Award-winning filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj Ritesh Batra. She features
for his upcoming project ‘Chhuriyaan’, and in it with Nawazuddin
has already finished shooting two films. Siddiqui.
She shot ‘Badhaai Ho’ with Ayushmann She said working with three different directors with a distinct approach towards
Khurrana in her hometown Delhi. storytelling taught her a lot on the job about her craft.
On the experience, Sanya said, “Delhi is the Being an outsider in the industry and not having formal knowledge in films, is it an easy
city I have been born and brought up in, so it task to choose the right script?
holds a special place in my heart. This time “I think I am pretty instinctive about choosing a script. If I like the story when I am
when I visited the city for the shooting of my hearing it, and as a performer, if my inner voice says, ‘Let’s do it, it will be fun’, I just
film, it was a very special feeling altogether. go for it.
However, the best part is that my friends “I do not know much theory to analyse. I just see then how I can contribute to the
and family keep me grounded. script,” she said.
“My equation has not changed with my close Sanya has loved Bhardwaj’s work.
people. Neither my family nor my friends “I loved ‘Maqbool’, which is one of my favourite film of Vishal sir. When ‘Haider’
treat me like a ‘star’ and I love it that way.” (2014) released and I went to watch the film in the theatre, I was blown away by the
She said while shooting, she used to visit performance of everyone in the film.”
places like the Moolchand flyover in Delhi “I remember telling my friend how I wish to work with this director who has the ability
for the ‘chhole bhature’ along with the film’s to bring out the best from every actor in his film,” said Sanya, who said the reality that
director and Ayushmann. her dream has come true within just a few years since then, is something that’s yet to
“Nothing has changed in the Delhi girl in me. sink in.
I think with success, you can stay grounded
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