“Our job is to lie in front of the camera”
She’s a modern beauty with an old-world insouciance, a seasoned actor who entered the world of cinema via Marathi films, and made a striking debut in Hindi, in an international film on human trafficking (Love Sonia). With her elfin charm, Mumbai-raised actor Mrunal Thakur has always been an escapist of sorts—from a humdrum city childhood where she would find refuge in television—with , , and . But she’d watch the shows on Sahyadri (a Marathi television channel) on mute. “That’s when I realised that language is not the most important component when it comes to telling a story,” shares Mrunal, who’s currently en route Hyderabad, the city that’s marked a brand-new beginning for her—her foray into Telugu cinema with the soon-to-be-released, Hanu Raghavapudi-directed .
