Amrita Rao
For me fitness is not about fighting fat or aiming thinness, it is about having the stamina and physical energy to keep up with my professional demands and day to day requirements of life.Collection: Fitness
I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I'm a true Gemini.
While we are originally from Mangalore, my grandfather had migrated to Burma from where he returned to join the Indian National Army and settled in Mumbai, where I was born and brought up.
Just because gladiator shoes are in, everybody can't start flaunting those.
All in all Hyderabad is a beautiful city. I think I have fallen in love with it.
According to me, the most stylish person in Bollywood is none other than Sushmita Sen. I have grown up in awe of her since I was in school.
While pursuing my Bachelors with Psychology in Sophia College, I auditioned for an advertisement for Fairever Face Cream. And to my surprise I was selected amongst the top contestant, which paved a way for me to take this profession sincerely.
I love home cooked Mangalorean food with all our coconut based gravies with different sprouts.
Hyderabad is a hot city, with hot food and hot people!
I do not see myself exposing and revealing. If there is a requirement for an item song or a special appearance song I might do it... if it is in the capacity of the film, if it is comfortable and suits me.
I was still in school when I heard about this audition for this fairness cream ad. I got selected and subsequently, did a lot of ads and I got noticed by Ramesh Taurani and Ken Ghosh and 'Ishq Vishk' happened.
Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be there and can do this though I did not have the guts to share my feeling with my parents.
I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.
Before I go to bed I clean my face with a cleansing milk and cotton pads and then wash my face thoroughly with a foamy face wash. I apply a calamine lotion on my face and a medicated moisturizer on my face and neck. I repeat the same procedure after I wake up in the morning.
A lipstick and eyeliner and a powder compact can keep you looking fresh and attractive all day.
I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.
Cinema is a slice of reality. You have school and college kids being intimate and marriage is not even in question and that is what they show in cinema.
Playing a mature role was challenging for me.
Directors typecasting actors is passe.
I have always been a family person.
Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.
There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.
I think '50s was the golden period. I am a fan of '50s cinema. I wish I was born at that time.
I wish I could play an actress of the '50s. It will be the happiest thing for me to do.
For me 'Satyagraha' is a big film as I am working with Amitabh Bachchan. It is a big opportunity.
'Satyagraha' brought the actress out in me and I am proud to be a part of this film.
I don't believe in any crore club.
Sharing screen space with Mr. Bachchan was a dream come true.
Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.
As an actress who wants to sustain her career, I would like to work and experiment with different types of looks and performances.
It feels great to be on the same pedestal as Madhuri Dixit.
I have always been very choosy. I am very particular about banners and filmmakers. Everything has to be top-of-the-line; I have never compromised on that.
I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.
I have refused to do plenty of films since there are some scenes that I am not comfortable doing on screen.
Innocence has died in Bollywood.
When I debut on television with 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai,' there were a lot of things that I experienced as an actor and felt that one could get into more nuances in terms of characterization. At the end of it, I wept non-stop for 15 minutes to get out of that character. It was that kind of emotional bond.
There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the digital medium coming to the fore, the actors are finding equal status with the stars.
Acting is not very easy; the more you have worked, the more it gets difficult.
Love-making is so personal to me that if I do it on screen, it is like I am leaving a part of my soul. I cannot do that.
As the cinema is changing, on-screen kissing, love-making scenes are becoming part of the narrative. I am not saying it is wrong, because it is the reflection of how our society has changed and become comfortable with it. But I am uncomfortable performing it on screen.
Shopping is great in Hyderabad and is better than in Mumbai.
It is something unique to the South, the way people look up to actors and worship them and literally celebrate their film.
I was very clear that when I do a fiction show the content has to be very unique.
I am happy that a script like 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai' is character-driven and has a lot of freshness to it.
I'm constantly evolving. I can just say that I'm attuning myself to contemporary fashion, moulding myself to opportunities.
Once a fan did something really sweet for me. He came all the way from Nasik and literally lived outside my house from morning to night. When the security guard and my driver told me about this, I invited him to Film City and he was so happy.
I keep a track of all that my fans say about me online.
Love is unplanned.
I want people to think that if I'm in a film, then that film definitely has good content.
The audience loves me, and that's what matters.