BORN TO SHINE - A STAR IN THE DARK

Her first appearance in a lead role happens to be Sushant Singh Rajput’s last. Understandably, Sanjana Sanghi’s thoughts on the subject are stars she cannot fathom into constellations. But this young talent is articulate on a number of other issues…

- Sonali Velinker Kamat

ALIVE WITH IRONY is the fact that Sanjana Sanghi’s first film in a lead role is an adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars. Her smile is like warm sunshine and her skin is luminous, but it isn’t enough to dispel the dark clouds and terrible turbulence that shroud the 23-year-old talent’s big break. Sushant Singh Rajput’s tragic suicide looms over everything, so instead of the narrative being led by Sanjana’s lead debut, headlines tell the tale of Sushant’s last ever film.

It seems like an impossible cross to bear, but this petite young star has a special gift when it comes to navigating storms. A Delhi University gold medallist, there’s an academic tint through which Sanjana appears to view the world. She embraces emotion as an actor, but rationalising everything is her scholastic superpower. Sushant’s passing is still “too raw” to rationalise it, she confesses, but fame, nepotism and the maladies that ail society today are subjects she aces.

SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT

A friend to lean on

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