Sobhita Dhulipala walks into the airy, private Alibaug bungalow, the venue for Brides Today’s cover shoot, with the ease of a veteran who’s done this innumerable times. Getting decked up, shimmying into her costumes, prepping for fashion campaigns and magazine shoots, she says, make her feel like “a child who’s been given crayons and paper.” And sure enough, she appears to have a blast before the camera, striking pose after pose like a natural, alluding to her modelling days before she wowed audiences with her acting chops.
It’s a similar ease before the lens that translates into the many commendable performances that earned her series, Zoya Akhtar’s n and the Indian remake of . Sobhita is now geared up for her Hollywood debut with actor Dev Patel’s directorial first, , for which she’s beyond thrilled.