Sanjana Sanghi: Sushant Singh Rajput and I bonded over academics and food
Actress Sanjana Sanghi opens up on her equation with late actor Sushant Singh Rajput on the sets of Dil Bechara.
Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi.
Sushant Singh Rajput’s last film Dil Bechara marks the acting debut of actress Sanjana Sanghi. Mukesh Chhabra is making his directorial debut with the film.
While Mukesh and Sushant are old friends and have been together since Sushant’s first film, Sanjana met Sushant for the first time for Dil Bechara’s reading session.
Both the actors, who are academic achievers, hit it off immediately over their love for academics and books.
Describing her first meeting with Sushant, Sanjana says, “We read the script down to its last word respectively, and both our copies looked like they were tattered old novels that had aged over years, with post-it marks and added notes. I was a bundle of nerves. Mukesh asked me to just relax, and we all jumped right in.”
Sanjana revealed how food was a mutual love for her and Sushant, in addition to their love for academics. “Mukesh, Sushant and I – all helpless foodies. We ordered a lavish spread. Looked at the dining table, yet we three decided to take to the floor, spread our meal on a mat, and started gorging. He mocked me for how much food I can eat, but the food was a huge mutual love for us in addition to academia. This lunch, most oddly, was marked with my father sending me a text saying we got a letter home telling us I had become a Gold Medalist at Delhi University. Sushant, Mukesh and the whole team were ecstatic to hear this news too – and what followed was champagne (that we never got the chance to open and celebrate with) and the kindest note from him about what the colliding of academia and cinema means even to him and the value it holds, which I still have tucked firmly in my drawer,” she said.
Dil Bechara will start streaming on Disney+Hotstar from July 24, 2020.
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