Sobhita Dhulipala on prejudice against actors from modelling background

Actor Sobhita Dhulipala has been busy with promoting her show The Night Manager.  The actress says she always had a deep respect for performing arts. Dhulipala was the first runners-up at the Femina Miss India 2013 beauty pageant. Sobhita later represented India at Miss Earth 2013 in the Philippines.

Sobhita told to PTI in a n interview, “When I started out.. I was aware that people know that I come from a modelling background, I was a Miss India. And there is a prejudice against them, that they are glam dolls and they can’t perform.”

“So, I was mindful that I should pick parts that allowed me scope for performance. A lot of my initial decisions were driven by that. I have a deep respect for performing arts and I want to do a good job, and be better every day.”

She further said, “I did not find mainstream opportunities in the very beginning so I was doing work that was coming my way and picking what was best from the lot. But I felt belonging to a variety of canvas was an opportunity to be visible to larger junta and build stories.”

“Different regions have storytelling that is unique to their temperament, you grow so much as an actor,” she added. “One hit and zoop, you go up. And two flops and boom, you are down. It’s like you are given a certain bunch of cards and you have to play with that. You can’t be ‘Kash mera yeh hota, woh hota’ (I wish I had a certain card).” she concluded.

Dhulipala currently stars in Disney+ Hotstar series ‘The Night Manager’, adapted from the eponymous British series which was based on author John Le Carre’s 1993 novel.

Coming to ‘The Night Manager’, it also features Aditya Roy Kapur and Anil Kapoor, first part released on Disney+ Hotstar in February and became an instant hit. The second part of “The Night Manager” is set to release today.