‘I DO NOT MIND AUDITIONING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE’

Mouni Roy loves the acting process so much that she feels if it weren’t as strenuous, the outcome wouldn’t be as good

Actor Mouni Roy, who has made the TV to film leap fairly seamlessly with Reema Kagti’s commercially successful Akshay Kumar-starrer Gold, feels hard work is the only way to the top. “You have to be very clear [when it comes to your career]. I love and acting and love doing what I do and that is my driving force,” she says, adding at the same time that she does feel the strain of having to adapt constantly, as an actor.

“There is a whole process and it is supposed to be difficult. I have always thought that the process is excruciating but at the same time if the process is not difficult, I feel the outcome is not as good,” adds the Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev actor. Mouni entered films after being a successful face on television for close to a decade. It’s easy to assume that a decade in the television world would have taught Mouni the ropes of making the right connections in Bollywood. But the actor says that her journey has been just as regular, and that she is focusing only on the present. “I am a very hardworking person and I can’t think of long term ambition. I can only focus on present. I give my 200%. I am a combination of hard work and talent, and being a good person is also important and that is something I have realised over a period of time. If you keep doing that, and live your present, you can build a future and this is what I striving for every day. I focus 200% on my present,” she shares. Probably that is why during her audition for Gold, she took a long time and never gave up, she reveals. “That’s how I got my first break and all this happened. Every audition I went for, it was like a do or die [situation] for me because I was getting another opportunity to work. I tried understanding what the character was and what my casting director wants. I don’t mind auditioning for the rest of my career. Honestly, it can be infinite,” says the actor, who has bagged big-budget projects such as Made in China and Brahmastra.

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