Triptii Dimri ‘used to come home and cry’ during ‘tough’ Laila Majnu shoot, recalls being sent to take acting lessons

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She even started having doubts about her decision to sign the film. She said, “Even in the workshop, Avinash and Sajid sir would be talking about character, depth, back story, and pain. And, I would just be sitting there thinking, ‘Kya pain? Kya baatein kar rahe hain yeh log?‘ Sab upar se jaaraha hai (I wasn’t able to understand anything). I literally used to go home and cry sometimes, thinking, ‘Mai galat toh nahi fass gayi? (Did I make the wrong decision)? Did I make a mistake? I have said yes and I even got selected, I love acting, but I was still scared.”

“This film required a good actor. There were scenes where I had to cry and be Laila. You can’t be Triptii on set. It was difficult to crack those things because I didn’t know anything about the world of acting. I just thought that I have to go in front of the camera and act, but when I attended the workshops, it didn’t feel like a piece of cake,” Triptii shared.

She went on to reveal that actor Saurabh Sachdeva, who featured with her in Animal, sent her back home for not being punctual for his workshop. “As soon as the first schedule was over, I went to Saurabh sir for his workshop. And again, I was late on my first day there. He was sitting outside and he said, ‘The workshop’s time was this, you are half an hour late’. I told him that there was traffic. He was like, ‘Go, come tomorrow’. He didn’t let me attend because the first thing one needs to learn is discipline. I stood there for a bit thinking that he might let me in, but that didn’t happen,” she said.