Sanjana Sanghi, actor

The Dil Bechara actress takes pride in having been brought up on a strict dose of reading. Reading books from all genres has always fascinated her. Non-fiction and psychology books are her favourite. She recommends 21 lessons For The 21st Century by Yuval Noah Hariri.

Book-to-movie adaptation you love and why? The Fault in Our Stars. I was obsessed with the novel and the Hollywood film when it came out. But, to be selected as the Indian Hazel Grace Lancaster for Dil Bechara... felt surreal.

A movie you wish was originally written as a book?

Dil Chahta Hai. It would have made for an amazing urban slice-of-life fiction novel.

If your life was a book, what would it be called?

The Insatiable Wanderer. It’s very hard for me to feel satisfied and that sense of wanting more is what pushes me to take up challenges that I myself could never have thought I would do.

First thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word book.

The windows to the world.

Are you a part of any book club? Do you see yourself ever opening a book club of your own? I am currently not a part of a book club, but I have grown up putting multiple book clubs together.

Has becoming a reader changed you as a person? If yes, how?

I don’t think people who know me can separate the reader me from Sanjana me. It’s literally a part of my identity, something that I gravitated towards when

I was a little child. I wouldn’t spend hours reading fiction, rather I read non-fiction because I never felt gratified by how much we were being taught. I had so many questions so I took it upon myself to find the answers.