Anushka Sharma believes that the meaning of ‘stardom’ has changed with the times. People just do not view stars as larger than life anymore, Sharma reasoned.
“During Amitji and Shah Rukh’s times, the meaning of stardom was different. Today it has changed. Still if it is there, then I feel as an actor you should accept everything that the audience gives you. It is love that you are receiving from the audience, it’s a kind of acceptance that you are getting. I don’t need any such kind of tag because I don’t believe I am capable of being able to fulfil that tag,” she said.
She stressed that it helps to be “unaware” of the actor who stars with you and seeing him as the “character he is playing”.
“There are a lot of of feelings which you don’t speak onscreen, but it gets denoted through some emotion or facial expression. I feel that the more I will be real, I will be relatable also,” Anushka said.
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Sharma also credits her directors for making her film career ‘diverse’. “I feel you get some kind of diversity in your career by doing different films. That can only happen if you are working with different directors. I have had the fortune of working with big directors which every actor would have dreamt of. I have worked with names like Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Karan Johar and Vishal Bhardwaj… Only a director can add diversity to an actor’s filmography,” added Anushka.
At present, the actor is hard at work on Pari.