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Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdown, there are several actors and actresses who haven’t had a release in a long time, in cinemas as well as on digital. But Parineeti Chopra has proved to be an exception. In a span of a month, she was seen in not one but three films. She opened her account this year with
The Girl On The Train, which released directly on Netflix. This was followed by the theatrical release of the gritty fare
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, co-starring Arjun Kapoor and directed by Dibakar Banerjee. A week later, she was seen in Saina, which was also released in cinemas. It was the biopic of badminton legend Saina Nehwal.
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The Girl On The Train – a murder mystery directed by Ribhu Dasgupta. She spoke to
Bollywood Hungama at length about her film, moving away from girl-next-door image and more.
So how was 2020 for you? I was fine, seriously. It was a great year personally! We all wanted that pause in our lives to rethink and reload. But, ofcourse, work suffered. We were hardly working.
And now you have
The Girl On The Train? Emily Blunt was absolutely Oscar-worthy in it. You are very effective too. You know, I wanted a challenge like this at this juncture of my career. I was looking to go anti-image. I wanted to do something that would shock surprise and challenge me. I wanted to escape the rom-com trap. I was actively looking for something like