Before she reached Delhi earlier this week, Rashmika Mandanna had her to-do list ready for her first visit to the capital. The Pushpa: The Rise actress was there to walk the ramp at a fashion event and for the shoot of her upcoming film Animal with Ranbir Kapoor. With limited time in hand, she couldn’t manage to complete everything on her to-do list, but she did manage to go out with her team for dinner. 

“This was my first time ever in Delhi and I had heard about the city so much that I have been making plans for a long time – ‘I will do this when I go to Delhi, I want to do that’,” said the actress, who was staying in Gurgaon during her visit here.

“The two things that people always told me about Delhi were shopping and eating out. I couldn’t go shopping as much as I would have liked, as I wanted to explore local markets, but I did go out for dinner with my team. It was amazing and now I know why everyone loves Delhi food. I was also told a lot about street food and chaat in Delhi, but I couldn’t go to any streetside chaat stall as I thought it would get too crowded,” shared Rashmika, adding that she would return to the city soon for her next shoot schedule.

“Whenever I saw Delhi on screen (since so many movies have been shot there), I always found it lovely. I was looking for a chance to shoot in the capital, which I have got now,” added the actress, who is looking forward to her Bollywood debut with Amitabh Bachchan in Goodbye.

“This has been a very interesting year for me in terms of work. Till May-June, I was completing my prior commitments, most of which got delayed due to the pandemic, but now I have some exciting projects that I am working on and I can already see that next year will be even more exciting with these films releasing,” said Rashmika, who has worked in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil movies in the last six years of her career and is happy now that no one addresses her for just doing “language films”.

She said, “The success that people talk about today hasn’t come overnight to me, in the last six-seven years I have been working continuously. People may divide cinema as per regions and languages, but I have always said that if you are an actor then all that matters is your craft, and if you know your craft, language is no barrier in communicating your emotions on screen to the audience. I am happy that I am getting to work in films in different languages and the audience is appreciating it. There have been a lot of offers, but I have always been a bit choosy in selecting projects, so I am trying to do different things.”