I’m loving the hippie life, says Sanya

With two films set to release shortly and one being shot, actor Sanya Malhotra has her hands full. Having made her debut in the Aamir Khan-starrer Dangal (2016), it took Sanya more than a year to sign her next films. She actually likes the way things have worked out.

“I’m loving the hippie life where we work on a film for a few months, meet new people, make friends, learn and then we pack our bags and go somewhere else to repeat all of that. It’s great to absorb everything and everyone’s different approach,” says Sanya, who has three films in the pipeline —Badhaai Ho with Ayushmann Khurana; Photograph with Nawazuddin Siddiqui; and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Pataakha.

On signing the three films, which belong to very different genres, Sanya says, “I’m pretty instinctive about choosing a script. If I like the story while I’m hearing it, and as a performer, if my inner voice says, ‘Let’s do it, it will be fun’, I just go for it.”

Asked if she worries that having established co-stars might affect her screen time, Sanya says, “Screen time is something I don’t really care about. I’m glad I’ve learned that from my first film itself. I do a film keeping in mind how my character can play an integral part in the storytelling aspect of the film.”

She adds, “You don’t need a lot of screen time to make an impression on the audience. You can make an impact in a five-second scene. It’s how you comprehend a script and do justice to it that matters. A film can never be a one-man show in my opinion; each film hosts a variety of characters that collectively make the film what it is.”

Sanya Malhotra has three films in the pipeline, all very different from each other