I CAN ONLY FOCUS ON THE PRESENT: MOUNI
Actor Mouni Roy has made the TV to film leap fairly seamlessly with Reema Kagti’s commercially-successful Akshay Kumar-starrer Gold. She feels hard work is the only way to the top. “You have to be very clear [when it comes to your career]. I love acting and what I do and that is my driving force,” she says, adding 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 regular, and that she is focusing only on the present. “I am a very hard-working person and I can’t think of long-term ambition. I can only focus on the present.
I am a combination of hard work and talent. 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 that is what I strive 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 [her role in Gold and subsequent movie opportunities] happened. Every audition I go for, it is like a do-or-die situation for me because I was getting another opportunity to work. I try understanding what the character is, 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-ticket projects such as Made In China and Brahmastra.
THE DEVON KE DEV... MAHADEV ACTOR SAYS THAT SHE DOESN’T LOOK TOO FAR AHEAD INTO THE FUTURE WHEN IT COMES TO HER BOLLYWOOD CAREER.