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Arjun Reddy star Shalini talks about film's success

  • The most talked about Telugu film in recent times is Arjun Reddy
  • The film has been on the news even before its release because of its many kissing scenes
  • The lead actress Shalini shares her thoughts about her film
Arjun Reddy star Shalini talks about films success

The recently critically acclaimed and controversial Telugu film Arjun Reddy starring Vijay Devarakonda and Shalini Pandey became a sensational hit winning accolades for the performance of the lead actors.

The debutante of the film Shalini Pandey hailing from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, talks about her journey towards filmdom. She said that she entered filmdom against her father’s wishes and had to complete engineering before taking up her passion.

The actress admits that the team expected a success but not at this magnitude. She said that she’s very happy that her character as a medico Preethi Shetty was winning laurels as everyone is relating to the characters in the film. She said that the highest compliment she received was from her father as he was all in praise for her performance and the rawness it had.

The film had 16 kissing scenes and Shalini was not told about them during the narration. “Sandeep narrated the script block-wise and he didn’t tell me about the kissing scenes. When he briefed us about these scenes on the sets, I didn’t feel anything weird and had no inhibitions as he didn’t objectify women and portrayed my role in a sensible way”, she said.

Shalini was not new to acting as she was a theatre artist in her hometown but this was her first film. She feels extremely proud and happy about her success and plans to take up offers which are performance-oriented, challenging and different.  

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