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UN STOP PABLE ALAYA F.
Elle India
|June 2024
From her debut in 2020 to her latest film alongside Rajkummar Rao, the actor admits she's still finding her feet and isn't worried if she hasn't peaked yet
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There’s a refreshing maturity to Alaya F., a trait that hasn’t been diluted by the machinery that seeks to control what celebrities say and think. But it wasn’t always that way with the 26-year-old. Now six films old, with her latest release being Srikanth, which spotlights the incredible true story of Srikanth Bolla, a visually-impaired industrialist and the founder of Bollant Industries, and stars Rajkummar Rao in the titular role, Alaya believes she’s coming into her own. “I’ve evolved as an actor. I want to think that I’m a director’s actor, so with the kind of synergy that develops between me and a director, I am steadily pushed to grow and challenge myself. I love being on sets where I’m challenged and pushed and feel like I’m levelling up,” she says.
This story is from the June 2024 edition of Elle India.
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