What dreams may come

You recently won the Best Actress Critics' Trophy for Kathal at the Filmfare OTT Awards. How does it feel?

It's my first Filmfare win. I couldn't attend because my sister Shagun was getting married to producer Achin Jain. And I was not expecting to win at all, and I have always been so excited just to be nominated for Filmfare. The next day I was promoting Sam Bahadur in Delhi, and I was with my producer, Guneet Monga. And on my way back, Guneet broke this news to me: Listen, you have won a Filmfare Award for Kathal. And what was the divine intervention that I had with my producer when my nomination and award were announced? And I couldn't believe it. I was like, This year can't get better, whether it is professionally or personally Touchwood.

All your recent films have been different, be it Paggalait, Meenakshi Sundaram, or Kathal...

I wasn’t really confident in myself to do a movie like Pagglait. But my producers, Guneet Monga and Achin Jain, had faith in me. I didn’t have the confidence to shoulder a film like Pagglait. But just to see the kind of confidence they had in me as a maker gave me a lot of confidence. I am glad that I believed in myself, because it has been a really important film for my filmography. It kind of opened up a lot of opportunities for me as an actor. So I am very lucky that despite me not having confidence in myself, they have confidence in me much more than myself.

How will you sum up 2023 for yourself?