‘Can’t believe I am turning 25, started as a child actor’

Sanjana Sanghi is back to work, and recently shot action scenes in Russia for her next, Om. She sounds excited when she tells us that the audience will get to see “a new side” to her. “It was satisfying to shoot, in the sense that you could go ahead and do that with all precautions. Also, what we filmed there was very exciting for me as an actor. I’ve been prepping for the sequence for a while now, and to finally do that was creatively very exciting,” says the actor, who turns 25 today.

Sanghi says she takes her birthdays seriously, and expects the same from her loved ones. “It has always been a grand celebration. In school, it used to be in the middle of our half-yearly exams, but I’d still have a party... I love getting everyone in my life together. Last year was the first time I couldn’t do that, but my closest friends came outside my gate and sang happy birthday,” she recalls fondly.

This year, she plans to ring in her birthday in Maldives with her close friends. We talk to her before she has taken off, so she has jitters amid the pandemic. “I just wanted to zoom out a bit, take notice of where’s one at and where life is. A little bit of the ocean and nice sunsets could do that,” says the actor, who debuted as a lead in 2020’s Dil Bechara. Exclaiming that she finds it surreal that she’s hit the “big 25th”, she says, “I’ve been the younger sibling, the little one at home. In the industry, I started off as a child actor (in Rockstar; 2011)... When I look back, there is so much growth, experiences that have added to the person I am now. I can’t believe I’m turning 25! Maybe once I cut the cake, it’ll sink in.”

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