From Damsel In Distress to Dabangg Andaaz

All decked up for the promotions and media interactions of her upcoming action thriller Force2, SONAKSHI SINHA cut a fine sight in dapper formals. Somewhere, I missed the peppy Sonakshi Sinha of the past. Moreover, her phone attracted her attention more than anything else, and she seemed like Alice in Wonderland amidst the bunch of us. From the clichéd damsel in distress to her latest Dabangg avatar, Sonakshi Sinha turns the tables with Force 2.

- Gayatri Nirmal

She wasn’t the quintessential Bollywood kamsin kali, when she entered the film industry; in fact, she was strong enough to be a Baahubali. Her very first film had a dialogue which was mouthed by the entire nation, thappad se darr nahi lagta… through which it was well evident that she was here to whack the bad boys black and blue in her action films. She loves beating them up so much, that when I asked out of curiosity if she did get the privilege to smack their butts, she pumped out, “A lot actually, but I have held back this time round, and I am not alone. I’m fighting together with John. That was also something new and exciting.”

Her last film Akira had all the stunts and action sequences which gave a kick to Sonakshi’s Dabangg attitude. She loved the genre so much, but little did she know that this fighter would do another action thriller with producer/actor John Abraham’s Force2. When I ask about the drastic change in her film choices, and whether she misses playing the typical bubbly Bollywood heroine roles, without a second thought, she unleashed her admiration and love for this genre saying, “I actually don’t miss playing typical Bollywood masala films’ heroine because I’m having so much fun doing the action genre. Also, Iwas doing typical masala film heroine roles for such a long time, and suddenly I made the switch to this. And I have to say it’s something I really enjoyed, because anything that is physically more demanding or athletic, I enjoy doing it. So, I’m actually not missing the bubbly characters I portrayed once upon a time.