“I believe you learn more from your failures than you ever will from your successes—my mantra is to learn from my mistakes and move forward in life.”
It’s 8:30pm on a Friday. I receive a frantic call from Kriti Sanon’s manager, letting me know that she has a 20-minute break in-between ‘shots’, and she’d like to do the interview now. For context: I had been chasing Kriti’s team, rather incessantly, to work out a suitable time for this interview. And between film projects, appearances, and a lot more, Kriti’s days have been chock-full. For starters, she is currently shooting for her upcoming film, The Crew. The announcement of this project garnered a huge interest from cinephiles, as Kriti stars alongside cinema royalty Tabu and Kareena Kapoor Khan… and the film is co-produced by Ekta Kapoor and Rhea Kapoor. It sounds like the perfect female first project, but Kriti clarifies that “it is a good mix of strong men and women”. “There’s Diljit [Dosanjh] as the male lead, and director Rajesh Krishnan, so it’s a full house,” she explains.
As we begin talking, Kriti’s responses are measured, but succinct. But as our conversation progresses, the guards seem to drop, and her honesty and vulnerability peek through. Counted amongst the top female actors in the
