One look at her lineup of films, and you will realise Kriti Sanon has come a long way since her debut nine years back in Heropanti, on this exact day-- Adipurush (touted to be India’s most expensive film), The Crew with Tabu and Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ganapath with Tiger Shroff and Amitabh Bachchan, and a romantic comedy with Shahid Kapoor.

The biggest challenge she faced early on was to break away from just being billed as a ‘pretty face’, she confesses. “When you do not come from a film background, it anyway takes time for people to even know your name. So I wanted them to know my name, and that name to resonate with talent. I always craved for validation as an actor. That started happening with Bareilly Ki Barfi, then Luka Chuppi did really well. I was taking baby steps in the right direction. Of course, after Mimi, there has been a huge shift, I got my first set of best actor awards. It took eight years for it to happen,” she smiles.

We ask the 32-year-old what was that phase like when she felt she could do better but filmmakers were not ready to take a chance with her. Sanon says it was ‘frustrating’, “There were a lot of moments of that... knowing I could do more, but not having the kind of opportunities I wanted on my table. When you come from the outside, you don’t know people, they don’t know you, it takes a while to make an impact, and for people to associate with you.

Published in The Daily National Courier, May, 24 2023

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