• Sanjana Sanghi isn’t following the path of the typical Hindi film heroine.
• She has chosen to act in films with senior actors at a time.
• Even when actors frequently select roles with broad appeal.

Sanjana Sanghi isn’t following the path of the typical Hindi film heroine. She has chosen to act in films with senior actors at a time when actors frequently select roles with broad appeal.

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She will, for example, co-star onscreen alongside Ratna Pathak Shah in the next film Dhak Dhak, while Pankaj Tripathi will play her father in a different film. Sanghi has never had the jitters that a rookie artist could have from collaborating with such illustrious names.

“Ever since my childhood, I haven’t been nervous or intimidated by people I look up to and respect. Somehow, I don’t go into that space. The credit also goes to how amazing Pankaj sir and Ratna ma’am are as people,” the 26-year-old tells us.

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The actor for Rashtra Kavach Om (2022) compares them as “mentors.” She said, “They are so giving. [I learn a lot by] not just observing them, but the little things tell me about how I can improve my performance in a scene. As an actor, I feel lucky to get that… Pankaj ji, in fact, has literally been like a father to me since we were prepping.”

Her second movie with Tripathi, following Fukrey Returns, is interesting (2017). However, this time, things are different. “I never had a scene with him, I actually didn’t realise that we had been in the same film! Yes, technically this will be the second one, but this is just on another plane,” she quips.