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She made her acting debut in 2009 with the Kannada film Gilli and later ventured into the Hindi film industry in 2014 with Yaariyan Rakul Preet Singh says she always wanted to act, but neither the southern film industry nor Bollywood was the plan for her
She made her acting debut in 2009 with the Kannada film ‘Gilli’ and later ventured into the Hindi film industry in 2014 with ‘Yaariyan’. Rakul Preet Singh says she always wanted to act, but neither the southern film industry nor Bollywood was the plan for her.
Asked if working in the southern film industry was always the plan for her or was it a stepping stone towards Bollywood, Rakul told IANS: "No, the southern industry was not the plan for me, neither was Bollywood. Firstly, films weren't."
The 28-year-old actress said she knew she "wanted to act", but she "didn't know how". "I didn't know much about the south industry and neither did I know about Hindi. I shot 'Yaariyan' and then my first film in Telugu. I shot for that film, and that went on to become a success and the rest is history. After that, I signed on a bunch of south Indian films - Telugu films. I just continued working there for seven to eight projects because they were great opportunities," she added.
Rakul made her Telugu film debut with ‘Keratam’ in 2011 and her Tamil debut in ‘Thadaiyara Thaakka’ the following year. She was a part of commercially successful films like ‘Venkatadri Express’, ‘Current Theega’, ‘Rough’,’Kick 2’, ‘Dhruva’, ‘Spyder’ and ‘Aiyaari’.
The actress, who is associated with online clothing company KOOVS, said her understanding of films actually happened through the process of shooting for the projects.
"South films happened, and before I knew I was doing a bunch of great films. I think the Telugu film industry has really accepted me with open arms and gave me an identity. So, I love that about the Telugu film industry. And there was nothing in my mind about getting into Bollywood or getting into Tollywood, it was a very organic process that happened," she added.
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