Speaking about her craft, Sara Arjun states that acting is a skill that can’t be acquired but only be polished.
Sara Arjun. (Supplied)
We have seen Sara Arjun in Saivam (2014) remake Dagudumootha Dandakor (2015) in Telugu. She has now grown into a beautiful girl, and her latest appearance is in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023). Sara has been working since she was a year old.
Asked how aware was she that she was an actor, Sara Arjun says “Only when I am on sets it hits me, otherwise, I never let it come to me that I am an actor. I am brought up in a middle-class environment”
Speaking further about her life, Sara Arjun adds, “I live in Mumbai, and most of my work was in the South— which is also why I am not recognised so much. It was very casual, and my parents kept me grounded. I never had a conversation with friends about films, and if I ever introduced myself, I would never say, ‘Hi I am Sara, the actress’,” she tells the South First.
Sara Arjun as Nandini in ‘Ponniyin Selvan 2’. (Twitter)
Speaking about her love for acting, the young actor says, “I am turning 18 in two months. When I got cast in my first ad, it started as a coincidence. Until the age of five and six —I had no idea, but as I grew, it became a huge part of who I am. I am so attached to it —this is my family. I am addicted to it, and I get to live so many lives.”
“Acting has been passed on to me from my father Raj Arjun. This is the best career option. This is what I am best at and it makes me feel so good. I realized during the shoot of the Malayalam film Ann Maria Kalippilaanu (2016) that what I was doing is something I loved, and I am so grateful ever since,” adds the Ponniyin Selvan actress Sara Arjun.
About her love for travel, Sara Arjun expresses, “I can never stay in one place too long, I love travelling and meeting people.”
“Everywhere I go I have a habit of meeting people and asking questions shamelessly as to who they are and what it took them to be here. I haven’t travelled abroad much, maybe to Dubai or Thailand. I am not counting. After a while, I will travel. I am in the twelfth grade now,” she further adds.
Speaking about her school, Sara Arjun shares, “I am studying at Isha School, my school has this programme where I get to live with rural people. We see rural India, recently we stayed 12 days in Madhya Pradesh with the tribals. I did surveys, education rates, and what the government was doing. I learnt so much as a human too. It is the happiest place I have been to. Every night they are celebrating, and all have a smile on their face”
Sara Arjun has never missed school, if she had ever done a movie, it was mostly on vacation. Her schedule is planned in a way to accommodate her studies. In these years, she has completed over 20 films.
She is also very clear about her career, “Academics is not my interest, though I am good at it. It is something that I must know and am supposed to know, but it isn’t something I would pursue. It won’t give me the same amount of joy that acting gives me.”
“I have an extra year to do a mandatory internship programme. For my first internship, I assisted Rajkumar Hirani with Dunki, which stars Shah Rukh Khan and Tapsee Pannu. That is when I understood the other side of the set. As an actor, I never had the time to get a grasp of the 24 crafts, pre-production and post-production, ” Sara Arjun adds enthusiastically.
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Speaking about her craft, Sara Arjun states that acting is a skill that can’t be acquired but only be polished. “I should be hundred percent involved to the extent I put my soul into it. I improvise a lot.”
In Ponniyin Selvan 2, she had a good screen presence. Every time she gets a movie, the script comes to her in advance and she learns the dialogue.
A still of Sara Arjun from Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan 2’. (Supplied)
Asked if she understood Ponniyin Selvan, Sara quips, “I have good grasping and memory power, it is easy for me to learn languages. My next release is Quotation Gang in Tamil. I was 14 when I got Ponniyin Selvan1, and wasn’t so aware of the Ponniyin Selvan legend. When I was given the character brief of Nandini (Aishwarya Rai), I just knew it was a historical film, but before the release, I read about it properly.”
“My teacher gave me the document that summed the story up and I enjoyed it. I was so good in the costume trials you have no idea. I sent a few pictures to my dad and he really got excited about the look,” she adds.
Sara states that she can’t wait to start her life in front of the camera and do a lot of travelling. She signs off, “I don’t spend time on social media, and I am not on it. Whatever you see are fake accounts. I want to visit an acting school abroad, just do a small course to see what method acting is about and what their approach is. Want to take many courses and explore.”
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