Dia Mirza recalls asking ‘friend’ Rajkumar Hirani for work: Please cast me in your movie Sanju

Dia is busy selling her new movie, Bheed, which additionally stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Kapur and Bhumi Pednekar in pivotal roles. The movie is directed by Anubhav Sinha. She was beforehand seen in Anubhav’s Thappad alongside Taapsee Pannu.

Dia instructed Indian Express in an interview, “When we turn out to be actors, we signal a bond of heartache. Heartache when your tales don’t discover audiences, heartache when your tales don’t discover producers, heartache if you end up simply ready endlessly for somebody to ship work your manner. It is de facto robust.” She additionally stated that if a movie works, artists might imagine that it wil appeal to extra work for them, however it isn’t at all times the case.

Dia additionally stated that she referred to as up Rajkumar Hirani and urged him to solid her in his biopic on Sanjay Dutt – Sanju. “Sanju for me was oxygen. I really needed it. remember for the first time in my career, I called a friend, because Raju is a friend, and said, ‘Please cast me in your movie. I need to work, and I want to be in a film, I am not getting any work.’ They then tested me, and liked what they saw and I landed the part.”

She additionally stated that she by no means did one thing like that earlier than Sanju as a result of she was at all times shy and awkward about making calls to pals for work. “May be that’s one of the reasons why I have not landed other jobs, maybe it takes for you to call and tell the filmmaker that, ‘I want to work with you’.”

After making her debut with Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein reverse R Madhavan and Saif Ali Khan in 2001, Dia featured in a number of movies within the early 2000s. With the 2018 movie Sanju, she reappeared as a well-liked face within the business. She has since labored in Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad and the online present Kaafir.