UNCONVENTIONAL. UNCENSORED. UNMATCHABLE - Sobhita Dhulipala

With far more successes than box-office defeats to boast, her filmography is as enviable as her strong jawline, exceptional elegance, or wide, expressive eyes. An actor par excellence and a vision in couture, Sobhita Dhulipala is proudly and unapologetically charting a path that's truly her own. In conversation with Brides Today, she opens up about her perception of life and fashion, cinema being cinema regardless of geography, and much more.

Sobhita Dhulipala walks into the airy, private Alibaug bungalow, the venue for Brides Today’s cover shoot, with the ease of a veteran who’s done this innumerable times. Getting decked up, shimmying into her costumes, prepping for fashion campaigns and magazine shoots, she says, make her feel like “a child who’s been given crayons and paper.” And sure enough, she appears to have a blast before the camera, striking pose after pose like a natural, alluding to her modelling days before she wowed audiences with her acting chops.

It’s a similar ease before the lens that translates into the many commendable performances that earned her her enviable repertoire of movies, both for the big screen and OTT, for Bollywood as well as the South Indian industry. Her filmography boasts incredible successes like Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan series, Zoya Akhtar’s Made in Heaven and the Indian remake of The Night Manager. Sobhita is now geared up for her Hollywood debut with Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel’s directorial first, Monkey Man, for which she’s beyond thrilled.

In her personal space, Sobhita isn’t fixated on productivity; she’s laid back and enjoys her downtime—especially when it involves doing nothing. Her everyday style, hair and make-up included, depends on how she wakes up feeling on a particular day. She lives with a positive outlook to life, not simply bending over to the “highs and lows” that make cameos along the way. She chooses to learn from every opportunity, which she hopes will one day include a rom-com, as well, letting the world in on her playful nature even on celluloid.