In good hands: ‘You look your best when working with Karan Johar’

Anushka Sharma praises film-maker’s aesthetic sense

MUMBAI: Anushka Sharma has claimed that one does not need to pay attention to looks when working in a film with Karan Johar. “I am someone who doesn’t pay too much attention to how I am looking, I get that involved in what I am doing. But when you’re working with Karan and Manish Malhotra, you can focus just on acting because you know that in every frame, you are going to look good,” she said. “Such is the magic of working with Karan Johar: you are going to look your best.”

The 28-year-old Sharma, who made her acting debut in Bollywood with the 2008 blockbuster Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, hails from an army background and had absolutely no backing in the industry. She made it big in Bollywood on her own and says actors coming from non-filmy back grounds face their own challenges.

“I think everything has its own pros and cons. I feel there’s a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background but when you are going through a low phase, you don’t have anybody to advise you. Your parents possibly cant advise you on films,” Sharma said. “They are outsiders and you have to figure it out for yourself, which is not easy. Having said that, people who come from within the industry face their own challenges as well.”

The Bollywood beauty will next be seen in Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which stars Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Fawad Khan and delves upon the complexities of unrequited love. The film, which is slated to release on October 28, traces the journey of Ranbir’s character as an aspiring singer and his relationships at different points of time.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2016.

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