“I am a secure and strong-headed person, which is why when I decided I needed reinvention in terms of the roles that I was doing, I was willing to wait for the right parts,” says Prachi Desai, who after Rock On 2 and Azhar in 2016, was recently seen in a digital film, Silence, co-starring Manoj Bajpayee. “But you can’t know if you will get the roles you want in a year or a month. There have been certain roles that I did with ease and enjoyed playing, but they were getting repetitive. I am the queen of my own life and never take any pressure regarding work,” the 32-year-old says.

Desai agrees that there are certain pressures, not just about working or being seen on screen but also paying bills. “Had I let that pressure get to me, I would have agreed to all the offers that came. I was offered roles by great directors, but I felt they wouldn’t benefit me. Being the limelight wasn’t my goal,” she shares.

Desai started her career with TV and looking back, she feels, a girl out of no where, making it in the entertainment industry is a huge deal. “I never imagined that in my 12th standard I would be picked to play a lead in a daily soap. In two years, I would see the best side of TV fame. Because of that break, I got my debut with Rock On!! (2008). We should give credit to ourselves for doing one film or 20 films, for making our choices, journey and success. I feel, it is only the industry that decides the level of fame one has. Everyone is different in their own way,” she says.