Rakul Preet Singh

Actress Rakul Preet Singh, who is set to share the screen with legendary Tamil actor Kamal Haasan in the film ‘Indian 2’, has opened up about her role in the film.

The actress shared that she portrays the character of a headstrong girl in the film. Rakul also said that she resonates completely with her character. Sharing insights into her character in ‘Indian 2’, Rakul said: “It is surely one of the most special films of my career. Not just for the people that I am working with but also because of my character. I play a headstrong, confident girl, who knows exactly what she wants. And somewhere, I resonate completely with this character in my real life.”

“It’s too early to disclose more, but yes, it’s been a delight to work with Shankar, pulling off this character by picking up from the nuances he shared with me,” she added.

‘Indian 2’, a sequel to the Kamal Haasan-starrer ‘Indian’, is a vigilante action film directed by S. Shankar. The movie sees Kamal Haasan reprising his role as Senapathy, an ageing freedom fighter turned vigilante who fights against corruption. Apart from ‘Indian 2’, Rakul has a busy schedule ahead.

The actress is currently filming for ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ and will soon be seen in ‘Mere Husband Ki Biwi’ alongside Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar. She also has ‘Ameeri’ in the pipeline, starring Neena Gupta and Chunky Panday. Singh, who said that she had always dreamt of being an actress, began her career in modelling at age 18 while she was still in college. In 2009 she made her acting debut in the Kannada film, Gilli, a remake of Selvaraghavan’s 7G Rainbow Colony. She stated that she signed up the film “with the aim to earn a little extra pocket money” and that she was unaware “how big south Indian films were”. She won critical acclaim for her role in the film before returning to complete her degree and compete in the 2011 Femina Miss India pageant. Apart from the People’s Choice Miss Indiatimes, she won four subtitles at the pageant including Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Beautiful Smile and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes.

She returned to films in 2011, featuring opposite Siddharth Rajkumar in Keratam which was released both in Telugu and Tamil languages, though critics noted that “she got very little screen time”. The film was also made in Tamil simultaneously titled as “Yuvan” with the same cast but different director. In 2012, she appeared in a supporting role in the Tamil film Thadaiyara Thaakka. In Jan 2013 she appeared in a Tamil film titled Puthagam. In November 2013 she was seen in Venkatadri Express in Telugu, the latter becoming a commercial success and earning her first Best Actress nomination at the 61st Filmfare Awards South. In 2014, she debuted in a starring role in Hindi with Divya Kumar’s directorial debut Yaariyan, after which her third Tamil film Yennamo Yedho released. By mid-2014, she was working on three Telugu films simultaneously, which were directed by Sriwass, G. Nageswara Reddy, and Gopichand Malineni.

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