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Hindustan Times Lucknow
|October 07, 2025
Her role in Mohit Suri's Saiyaara turned Aneet Padda into an overnight sensation earlier this year.
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But according to the actor, her big break came after years of uncertainty.
In a recent interview, Aneet recalled looking for auditions online as a teenager. “I was 17 and began searching online for acting auditions and landed on shady websites in the process. They were scams, basically,” she noted.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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