![]() I am not in the same boat here,” says Bennington. ![]() “In Los Angeles, I was one of 150 guys who looked exactly like me. Mark Bennington is a long way away from his acting days in New York or his photography days in Los Angeles, but he is clearly having the time of his life. And now he gets to play a Frenchman wooing Dimple Kapadia, no less, in Saas Bahu Aur Flamingo on Disney+Hotstar. He’s been an American with a thing for Shahana Goswami’s banker on Netflix’s Bombay Begums (2021). He’s been a CIA agent more than once, in Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018) and in Rocket Boys (2022). With 25 films in Telugu, which she now speaks well, and a burgeoning career in Hindi films, Singh, a maths graduate from Jesus and Mary College in Delhi, is set to go higher. “I told her it’s the only one I have,” she says, never one to seek validation from anyone. What’s the worst rejection line she heard? A casting agent telling her that she was good, but had too generic a face. “I would leave my home in Kandivli at 9 in the morning, go to a gym in Bandra which had the best trainer, and then join the lines at Aram Nagar for auditions,” she recalls. It is the same commitment that saw Singh driving around Mumbai in her little Ritz for endless auditions, before she cracked it with her first Hindi film, Yaariyan (2014). He doesn’t have to do it, but he does because it is his passion,” she says. “Kamal Sir comes in on the sets at 5.30 in the morning to be ready by 11AM, and it takes another two hours to take the makeup off. As she works on a forthcoming thriller with Bhumi Pednekar, or observes co-star Kamal Haasan’s five-hour prosthetic process for Indian 2, she is learning every day. ![]() Whether it is playing a doctor in Doctor G (2022) or a self-motivated sex educator in Chhatriwali on Zee5 recently, Singh has steadily built a profile as an actor on screen and a star on the red carpet. After her first film upon her return, De De Pyaar De (2019), with Tabu and Ajay Devgn, which did very well, she has been consistently portraying a new kind of woman, with a job, and a voice. But Rakul Preet Singh loves a challenge, something she learnt from her Army officer father. She was called “Hyper Star” in Hyderabad and having worked with every major actor in the Telugu film industry, from Jr NTR to Ram Charan, there was no reason for her to return to the Mumbai film industry where she first began. ![]()
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