Mumbai, August 03: Sonal Sehgal, who was once upon a time a famous television actress, will now bee seen in Aashayein, a Nagesh Kukunoor film. The pretty actress has had quite a long journey in her acting career.
Before getting into the glam world, she was assisting director, Pradeep Sarkar, who recently directed Lafangey Parindey, which will be out on release soon.
She says, “Before I started doing ads and video clips, I was assistant director with Pradeepda, since he was the only one in Delhi. I really learnt a lot under his guidance.” The actress then ventured out into doing theatre, bagged very different roles in television and soon become a popular face. The actress who has done a couple of movies before one of them being ‘Radio’ didn’t quite make it big in the industry.
Sonal has also written a script recently which is already taken up by one director and will soon be made into a film. When asked if the actress would consider director later in life, she says, “One day I will surely turn director, but not at the moment. I wouldn’t want to talk about the movie so soon, the director will be announcing it soon.”
From a young age the actress was inclined towards acting and remembers telling people that when she grows up she would want to become Charlie Chaplin. “Yes, I would always go around telling people that, when they would ask me what I wanted to become. I would never think of becoming a doctor, engineer, teacher, but just a star like Chaplin,” says Sonal who has certainly not taken on the legends footsteps, but is slowly paving her own path.
We hope the actress finds success in whatever she takes up and sets her hold in the industry.
——Agencies