After dabbling in Hindi and Marathi cinema, actor Mithila Palkar has now forayed into Tollywood with a romantic drama, Ori Devuda. She sees it as an opportunity to expand her audience base. “I didn’t worry about losing my core audience. I do things that make me happy. That’s how I have navigated my career so far,” says the Little Things actor, adding, “We all know that aaj kaam hai, par kal nahin bhi ho sakta hai. We live each day as it comes. And I am always willing to have new experiences. It is a good chance, as it will help create an overlap of audiences, too.”

Palkar likes exploring regional languages. In fact, she enjoys watching films from the south, too. “When I did Karwaan (2018), I had to know who DQ (actor Dulquer Salmaan) was. So, I watched a lot of Malayalam movies. And when I was quarantined after contracting Covid-19 (last month), I watched South films that were on my list,” she shares.

The 29-year-old says that she didn’t have a Telugu tutor before starting her latest project and she relied on her best friend’s mother’s guidance to grasp the character’s emotions. “I made her read the lines and send voice notes to me. That helped me understand the way the words should sound,” she says.

Palkar’s biggest fear, however, was wasting anyone’s time: “I knew that if I forgot even a single line, things would go for a toss, and I don’t like putting anybody in trouble at my expense.”