‘I DON’T FEEL PRESSURE IF I DON’T HAVE A RELEASE IN A CERTAIN YEAR’
Actor Prachi Desai talks about her ‘unplanned’ hiatus and making a comeback on OTT
After Rock On 2 in 2016, actor Prachi Desai did not have a single film release for almost five years, until the web film Silence... Can You Hear It? of dropped in 2021. Following the release the second instalment, Silence 2, the actor tells us that her hiatus wasn’t intentional. know where I “I have always wanted to went and where I had to come back from,” she quips, adding, “I am a person if who doesn’t feel unnecessary pressure
I don’t have a release in a certain year. more The nature of the business is such, out so with social media, everything is get to there. But I don’t let such pressure
19 me.” The 35-year-old cites the Covid- for pandemic as one of the major reasons the gap between her last big screen outing and Silence. by “After Rock On 2, a year or two went and a project got delayed. Then, Covid happened and that period didn’t have enjoyed any releases. But post that, I have
I myself thoroughly. With OTT booming, have taken up many interesting things,” shares the actor, who made her Telugu debut with the web show Dhootha
“It was (2023), alongside Naga Chaitanya. my first Telugu project, so I was of extremely nervous, but it was one the best experiences,” she admits. “Our director Vikram [Kumar] let me find my process and a way to memorise these words that I didn’t know,” she continues. While Desai hopes to do a love story, she is focussed on picking projects that offer her a range of roles and insists that the medium is not a deciding factor. “I want to make the most of everything that comes my way. The dynamics may change [while working as an on different mediums], but your job actor stays the same.”
I don’t feel the need to put myself out there as much; I don’t think about going out of sight and out of mind. PRACHI DESAI, Actor