Kriti Sanon has proven her acting skills time and again over the years. The 31-year-old actress recently made a return to commercial films with Akshay Kumar-led ‘Bachchhan Paandey.’ Kriti has been quite active in the last few years, delivering multiple projects simultaneously. She says, “I actually signed all my films in 2020, which was very strange. I think people were writing films at home and coming to me. In this period, I got very different kinds of films, which is something very exciting for me as an actor because I could choose to be a part of different kinds of worlds.”
She added, “These were all the films that I was in talks through the pandemic and started shooting every time a lockdown opened up. I am just fortunate and blessed that I am finally getting the opportunity to pick different roles. There used to be a time when I was offered same kind of roles.”
Kriti said she has been receiving a variety of roles that works best for her because she wants to avoid getting typecast. “After doing ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’, 99 per cent of the films coming to me were small-town films in a similar genre. And now it is nice to reach a point where people are coming to me asking, ‘What kind of film do you want to do?’ Something which was very rare for me before this year. I am now able to tell people what I want to do, what world I would want to get in, or I’d love to play a grey character. This change is really nice to see. Sometimes it happens so gradually that you don’t even realise.”
Talking about the success of her 2021 hit film ‘Mimi’, she said many male actors would feel insecure if their roles were smaller than hers. She said, “There are very, very few who would let others share screen space equally. I’ve been in situations where most men were not willing to do a film where 60 per cent was me and 40 per cent was a male actor’s role. Nobody was willing to do it. So, I obviously think that these things need to change a little. What Akshay did in ‘Atrangi Re’ was so commendable. It was a small but good role. Akshay is so not insecure of anyone, and plays his part honestly.”
On the work front, Kriti has ‘Adipurush’, ‘Shehzada’, ‘Bhediya’ and ‘Ganpath’ in the pipeline.
