Actor Sonakshi Sinha’s decade-old career has seen over three dozen releases already. And because of the Coronavirus pandemic, this busy bee had to put a pause to her hectic work life. “I don’t think I’ve had a break which lasted so long, in the last 10 years. I’ve been working non-stop, and this break, which has been thrust upon every one of us, is the first time that the industry has come to a standstill,” Sinha says.

The 33-year-old had been shooting for her web project before the lockdown came into effect. “I was in the middle of this project with director Reema Kagti, and was thoroughly enjoying being a part of it. I think about it so much, I can’t wait to be back on the set,” she shares.

This web project is just one of the many ways the actor has been experimenting with her roles. Sinha, whose career started with out-and- out masala entertainers. However, it took her a few years initially to break away from potboilers.

“The success of Dabangg, which established me as a quintessential commercial Hindi film heroine, is why I was offered films like those. These kind of films helped me to garner an audience for myself, which later gave me the courage to take on title roles without a big hero opposite me,” explains Sinha.

Her aspiration, she says, is for filmmakers to feel that she can pull off anything. She shares, “I’m happy my graph has been such that I delved into everything. I want to be that heroine you can picture in any kind of film — irrespective of whether it has a hero or not, a hugely mounted film, a romantic or an action one. I feel proud of having achieved this.”