EXCLUSIVE: Rashmika Mandanna pours her heart on being an outsider, her family’s struggle: It was really hard

Actor Rashmika Mandanna is all set to make her Bollywood debut with Amitabh Bachchan in Goodbye. Amidst the promotional activity, Bollywood Bubble got in touch with her where she opens up about being an outsider and her family’s struggles and tribulations, who had no idea about the film industry before she walked into it. She recalls the time when she had to explain to them in a hard way about her filmy world and the real world.

The Pushpa actor exclusively tells us, “I’ve grown up in a hostel also so for me staying away from my parents was never a problem because you stay eight months in the hostel and the rest of the time you get to go back home in holiday, right? For me that was never a problem but constantly staying away for so long and after your sister happened and when she was born, I would feed her, I would change her diapers, I would bathe her, I was a second mama. To move from that to now not being able to see her grow up was a little painful and of course, when there is negativity wrapped around these phases where something happens and negativity starts forming. I don’t have a family which is out of a film so, it was really hard. I think initially for my parents to sort of like get adjusted because I think there was a point in which my mum thought the industry was something which we had control over. Whatever we want to do, we can do in the industry and she had to learn it in a hard way that wasn’t right. No matter what your family does, you’re an actor, you’re the artist, you’re the face, so, that will come on you. Whatever they see, whatever they do, that comes on you and now we’ve figured out that you’re not from the industry so don’t involve yourself in the industry because you can’t take so much.”

Talking about her family’s life in Coorg, Rashmika says, “We’re from Coorg, we don’t have so much of a broad mind so you guys live your life, this is your life, don’t let this go because this is not easy, you live a comfortable happy life. If my sister wants to get into films or any industry later on, she still has a long way to go. Let me do my thing because I am an artist. This is my life this is my journey, let me make my own choices. Don’t try to control my life because world is not the way you think it is. It’s so much bigger, it’s so much harder so I had to give that lesson being a daughter and being an artist because of the generation gap, the mentality. They’re born and bought up in Coorg and Coorg is such a place that everyone knows everyone there and that is just a small community. The second you come out of there and you face the world, the world slaps you on your face and says you’re nobody here, you’re just like the small particle in this big wide world.”

 

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“They had to learn it in a hard way because back in Coorg they have everything that they want, they have the money, and they walk out of the house and they’re waving at everyone they’re those kinds of people. But out there in the world that doesn’t happen, it’s not graceful enough. I had to teach them that and they learned it now and they’re comfortable in their lives and they’re taking care of my sister my parents are happy here. I’m as an artist trying to figure out my life and how I am out about in the world so it was a journey and a lesson for all of us,” the Dear Comrade actor Rashmika Mandanna further adds.

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