Ananya Panday made her debut in Bollywood with Student of the Year 2. She starred alongside Tara Sutaria and Tiger Shroff in the same. Post her debut, she went on to star in films like Khali Peeli, Pati Patni Aur Woh and Gehraiyaan. In a recent interview, Ananya said that fulfilling her dream of becoming an actor wasn’t easy for her. She also talked about facing casual sexism in her initial days.
During her appearance on The Ranveer Show, she said that she never promised anything before she made her debut in Bollywood. She added, “I always wanted to become an actor but I never knew how am I going to become one. I never thought it was going to be easy.”
The actress further recalled people telling her to fix her body and that it was very ‘hurtful’ to hear such things. She continued, “As soon as I started working, people started saying things like ‘you should fix this and fix that, like get a boob job or change something about your face. And, it is said very casually and not in direct words that you sometimes even don’t pick it up. They would say, ‘just fill up a little more. Put on some weight.”
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Ananya added that she was hurt by people’s suggestions. The actress thought, “Is that what people really care about? Is that what I am reduced to? Is there nothing about me paramount to my waist size or chest size? The worst thing you can do to someone is judging them for their body.”
Ananya has interesting projects in the pipeline. The actress will be seen in Liger alongside Vijay Deverakonda. Besides that, she also has Kho Gaye Hum Kahan with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Adarsh Gourav.
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