Was more of a beauty queen than an actor, says Celina
Celina Jaitly Haag’s comeback project, Season’s Greetings, has been winning multiple awards at film festivals across the globe. Recently, she also won an award for best actor. After her big success, the actor says she has been receiving a plethora of offers.
She shares, “I feel extremely blessed to make such a phenomenal comeback. I never left the film industry; it was time to take a pause and rethink the direction I wanted to take both as a woman and as an actor. I have lots of amazing offers as well as plans.” Haag reveals that she will soon be seen in a comedy project, a genre she loves and trusts as her “highest plus point”. “Covid travel restrictions are making me refrain from travelling. But I am working on something fascinating and hilarious,” she adds. The actor, who was last seen in feature films Thank You and Shrimathi (both 2011), admits that now is the time to explore her creativity since showbiz has undergone a major transformation: “I was a teenager, when I started working in cinema. I was more of a beauty queen than an actor in the eyes of directors, and I too was learning. I had the talent within me but I did not know how to channel it.”
Haag signs off saying she has no plans of shifting base to India in the near future. cantonment areas. Now, it has changed tremendously,” he remembers, adding Mirza comes confidently to the competition off the back of winning previous games.
Anees, recently, came out with his memoir, Riding Free, that explores his journey. He hopes that more youngsters will take up the sport.