Raashii Khanna is all set to step into Bollywood’s highlight with Yodha, the place she’s performing alongside Sidharth Malhotra. Portraying a personality brimming with depth, Raashii effortlessly transitions from her established success in South Indian cinema to the grand stage of Hindi movies. On this unique interview, she delves into her aspirations, desires, and the fragile artwork of balancing two vibrant movie industries. Excerpts:
I’m all the time on a flight.That’s the one problem I face. Haha. On a severe be aware, I don’t assume there was any transition in any respect. I’m nonetheless actively working within the south. I’m attempting to steadiness work in all industries and attempting to be in all places to make it occur. All of the industries attempt to make good memorable cinema and all of us Indian actors simply wish to be part of that.
There’s a enormous listing of individuals. I really feel like I’m simply beginning out! I wish to work with Sanjay leela Bhansali, Raj kumar Hirani, Zoya Akhtar, SS Rajamouli, Aanand L Rai, Karan Johar, Rohit Shetty, Sidharth Anand, Vishal Bharadwaj, Sriram Raghavan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Hansal Mehta, Meghna Gulzar Vikramaditya Motwane and so many extra.
That’s but to return. It’s the movie that I’ve simply completed capturing with Vikrant Massey (written and directed by Bodhayan Chaudhury). I’m very grateful to have the ability to painting an unconventional character that churned my soul. It resonated with me and can resonate with each one that has ever had a coronary heart break and felt misplaced and dejected after that have. It’s actually just like the phoenix story the place you stand up after turning to ashes as a result of fairly truthfully you haven’t any alternative. That is the place you study in regards to the energy that’s all the time been inside you. The expertise was extraordinarily enriching and I can’t wait to share that with the viewers.
If you work with actors like Shahid and Vijay sir, you’re pushed to deliver out the most effective model of you. They’re like a walking-talking movie college. Essentially the most memorable facet for me was the training curve as an actor. I might simply observe them, their mannerisms, their strategy to the scenes, have lengthy conversations with them about our craft and speak in regards to the mutual love we shared for this artwork type. I learnt about what made them the actors that they’re in the present day, in regards to the challenges they confronted, about how they cracked a sure difficult scene. I might have conversations with each of them the entire day.
A personality has to enchantment to me ultimately. I’ve to be satisfied that I will do justice to it. It’s not needed for me to narrate to it totally, I ought to simply perceive her story. My dream is to play a wide range of roles which are very distinct from one another, convincingly in order that I don’t stagnate and turn out to be a stereotype. The character must also have an arc or some that means within the circulate of the narrative particularly if it’s an out and out business movie. Typically if I just like the story and never the character a lot, I attempt to speak to the director to offer me area to create my very own particular person.
Sarcastically, it was the expertise I had on the units of my first movie Madras cafe. I felt like I used to be a misplaced baby who had simply discovered her path. I completely beloved entering into the footwear of a personality so completely different from my very own and nonetheless making her look and sound genuine. I knew within the moments of capturing these scenes that that is what I needed to do for the remainder of my life. Performing for me grew to become a way for private catharsis and with time it grew to become a medium the place with a sure efficiency I might transfer the viewers and invoke completely different feelings in them, the place I might snigger and cry with them and assist launch my emotion and theirs and heal collectively. This artwork type is so highly effective & transformative each for the artist and the viewers that there’s nothing else that might have satisfied me to look elsewhere.
I’m nonetheless continuously evolving and altering as I acquire new experiences, study new expertise, and develop a deeper understanding of my artwork type and the world round me. I’ve an unwavering dedication in the direction of my craft and I’m studying new ability units on a regular basis. I don’t take something without any consideration. I’m additionally not afraid anymore to take creative dangers and problem myself with numerous and demanding roles. I’ve turn out to be extra accountable as an individual and as an actor and wish to use my voice and the platform I’ve been given for optimistic change.
Personally, a very powerful lesson I’ve learnt is to forgive and let go. It’s so painfully enriching. I’ve understood the transient nature of relationships and the complexity of human behaviour and the way I can simply observe conditions and folks with out letting them have an effect on me. Being non judgemental, empathetic and being centred has introduced a number of peace in my life. One other crucial lesson I’ve learnt is to dwell authentically. Attempting to be somebody you aren’t is exhausting and unfulfilling, particularly on this digital age. Embrace your true self, settle for your flaws and strengths, and dwell in alignment together with your values and passions. Professionally, I’ve learnt to be indifferent from success or failure. Success doesn’t go to my head and failure doesn’t go to my coronary heart. I simply embrace life because it comes. Each expertise is a lesson. And each lesson helps me develop each personally and professionally. I’m simply grateful for every thing.
No matter any business, my strategy to roles stays the identical. My expertise within the South Indian movie business has enriched me as an actor and as an individual however I knew from the beginning of my profession in regards to the sort of roles I might select. I’ve had my share of economic movies the place the story mattered greater than my character arc however I’ve balanced it with movies the place the characters drew the story ahead. And I wish to carry this balancing strategy in whichever business that I work in. Nevertheless, I’ve extra starvation for impactful roles in the present day. I additionally really feel in the present day is an excellent time to be a feminine actor with the varied sort of roles being written for us. So in the present day, we now have higher decisions to make. Life is brief and I wish to be remembered for high quality work greater than amount.
I really feel the necessity to break sure limitations by portraying complicated and nuanced characters that defy stereotypes. There’s a lot for me to discover. I wish to be a part of tales like Rang de Basanti which had such a robust cultural influence on our era or 3 idiots or simply an intensely painful love story like Rockstar or a style that has by no means been explored earlier than that strikes folks. I can’t pinpoint on a sure sort of character I want to play as a result of there’s a lot to discover. I don’t wish to be restricted by style or conference. I wish to reveal my versatility in numerous tasks.
