THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Harper's Bazaar India|December 2020
Actor Ananya Panday knows a thing or two about speaking her mind...and having to fight the battles that follow. In a very special conversation with Bazaar, she shares just why she is determined to look at the bright side and rise from every setback.
NANDINI BHALLA
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

“My mom has a new rule for me...I have to pause for five seconds before responding to a question.” I have just asked Ananya Panday if she ever feels the pressure to behave in a certain way, and now I am worried that this interview will be one with performative responses.

“...but clearly I am not following the five-second rule right now,” she concludes, with a laugh. It is just after 8 p.m., and Ananya is on her way home from a 12-hour work shift. Before our phone call, the actor’s manager sent over a request: could we please restrict the interview to under an hour, in case Ananya is tired?

You must be very tired, I venture... “I’m fine!” Ananya insists, “And anyway, I get car-sick on long journeys, so the talking will distract me.”

The voice down the line has a giddy quality to it, and the words tumble out quickly. But there’s something else: an effervescence that will have you believe Ananya is permanently smiling. “I’m an excitable person,” Ananya reveals. “And I speak so fast that I jumble things up. Sometimes, things get lost along the way...”

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