Titas Chowdhury (HINDUSTAN TIMES; March 18, 2020)

Gul Panag is elated and satisfied with the way her career has shaped over the past few months. The actor, who was seen in a couple of films and a bunch of web shows, feels fortunate that good roles have been coming her way even though she has never “gone around looking” for work. “It’s fantastic that people are reaching out to me to play such diverse parts and it’s extremely flattering. I don’t do networking and socialising. I’m not going out there searching and canvasing for work. The work that I’ve done in the last ten months is more than the entire work I’ve done since my first film (Dhoop) in 2003,” she says.

Giving us a glimpse into the last ten months of her career, she elaborates, “It’s extremely gratifying for me that there are so many different kinds of work out there. I played a coach in Student Of The Year 2, a glamorous and modern antagonist in Bypass Road (both 2019), a small supporting part of an army officer in The Family Man that received massive appreciation, a gangster in Rangbaaz Phir Se and a strong woman in Pawan & Pooja. The range of parts is phenomenal and I got the opportunity to lead such different lives in the last ten months.”

The Dor (2006) actor says that it’s her acting career that has enabled her to branch out and don multiple hats. “Acting is just one of the things that I do. I’m not saying that I’m a part-time actor. Acting is very important to me, as my acting career is an enabler for all the other things that I do and I can’t run away from that. I could be an entrepreneur and connect with people because they know me as an actor. As a producer, I’m being able to do projects because of my acting career,” she signs off.