He said to me ‘go and give the audition.’
“He was really serious but I was apprehensive initially because I am a designer, used to being back stage. He literally pressured me to do it,” Divya told PTI.
The actress is now ready with her second Bollywood venture, “Mona Darling”.
Though she says people started taking her “more seriously” post her debut, the journey to bag her second project was in a way a struggle which involved moments of self doubts too.
“Even though I did ‘Byomkesh…,’ I didn’t feel like I was an actor then. I wasn’t doing the film because I wanted to be an actor, or to be famous. I thought it was the first and the last role, because I never thought I had it in me.
“The minute I was introduced to what acting truly was, I felt like an actor. But I thought I didn’t deserve to be one because I wasn’t talented enough or didn’t spend enough years in the craft.”
