For someone who's all of 26 and just two
odd years in the film industry, Sonakshi
Sinha's resume already boasts of 10
films, four of which have been branded
'superhits'.
Sinha loves the world of cinema and
makes no bones about it. She creates an
album of every film that she works in on
her cell, which features some film stills
and candid pictures taken on the sets,
these are stored as memorable moments in her career. She is very proud
of the fact
that in a short span of time she's had five
releases to her credit and is currently
working on her 10th film! "I consider it
an achievement," says the actress, as she
sinks into a chair in her fuss-free living room on the ninth floor of
Ramayan, the
Sinhas' Juhu bungalow.
Sinha recently took everyone by surprise
when she played the asthma and
tuberculosis-afflicted simple Bengali girl
Paakhi in Lootera, a film set in the '50s.
Calling it 'a beautiful film made with a
wonderful team', she says, "People have really liked the film. My
decision to do the
film (despite being advised against it by
friends), the hard work and meeting the
challenges of shooting have all paid off."
It's common knowledge that besides
shooting hiccups like her co-star Ranveer
Singh's injury, the film was completed
amid unpredictable heavy snowfall in
Dalhousie that at times put the shooting
off gear. However, not all challenges stemmed from external factors.
Besides, trying to synchronize her
working style with that of her co-star,
Singh and director Vikramaditya
Motwane, the actress found it tough to
play an asthmatic patient. "I am known
to be this hatta katta girl with no history of illness — in short a
picture of health. I
had never seen a person getting an
asthma attack before. To make my
breathlessness look convincing, without
veering towards the caricaturish or silly,
was a huge challenge for me. Apart from that, I had to tune in with Ranveer and
Vikramaditya's style of working. They
both come from the same school of
thought and believe in being thoroughly
prepared before coming on the sets,
while I prefer to be spontaneous.
Initially, I used to land on the sets and
ask, 'Achaa aaj kya kar rahe hain?', they
would go 'WHAT!' I told them that this is
how I work! Gradually, we met midway
and got in tune with each other," she
chuckles, adding that she's happy that she did the film as she believes that
intense romantic film like Lootera comes
once in a lifetime.
"It's the kind of love that refuses to die
despite Ranveer's character turning out
to be a thief; it is unlike the love stories
being made today. The scene where he
has to leave just when they realise their
love for each other, and she comes to him with so much hope and vulnerability is
heart-wrenching! Everything about the
film is so poetic, thanks to
Vikramaditya's power of vision," she
sighs.
If Lootera is an intense romance set in
the '50s, then her upcoming film Once
Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara is a
gangster love triangle set in the '80s;
she'll be seen romancing two heroes,
Akshay Kumar and Imran Khan for the first time on screen…Ask her about doing
two period films, and she instantly
springs back to tell you that there's a
difference. "But both the films are in
completely different spaces," she
stresses, adding. "It's interesting to do things which transport you
into another
world, things which I have not
experienced. It's both challenging and a
joy to discover that life. And Milan Luthria
is such a perfectionist when it comes to
detailling. I could feel the old world around me. Besides, he refuses to take a
shot if he feels everything is not in place.
Like the streets of old Mumbai that he
visualised and recreated at Film City
Studios — I felt like I was walking on
Mohammad Ali Road."
The shooting of her next venture Rambo
Rajkumar with Shahid Kapoor is almost
complete. And Sinha's thrilled to be
working with Prabhudheva, who's
helming the film, again.
"I can see no change in Prabhu sir since I
worked with him in Rowdy Rathore. He is
unapologetic about the kind of cinema
he believes in — the have to be hardcore
entertainers. I really like the films he
makes and his style of working. In Rambo, I play this girl, who is ready to
take on the goondas. I told Prabhu sir
that he has made me more rowdy than I
was in Rowdy Rathore! I will be working
with him in yet another film with Ajay
Devgn and am looking forward to it.
I think I have become half South Indian
by now, and my third film with Prabhu
sir, will complete the process," she quips.
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