Size zero is often a term that comes up when we talk about showbiz. Actress Pragati Mehra feels strongly about this and voices her opinion. “I have never been a thin person in my life. Everyone around me loves to feed the thought that an actor has to be a certain size. So, yes, that did make me insecure to an extent and it still does sporadically. But then I see actors 10 years younger to me, as thin as sticks, and still playing the same onscreen age character as me,” she says.
The actress has been a part of shows like Uttaran and Chhoti Bahu and is currently seen in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai.
But somewhere she does feel that she has been typecast in the industry. Commenting on that she says, “I have been bagging strong or negative characters in the 40 years age bracket, even when I was not 40. Now that I am in the age bracket, some real good scripts go past because people have only seen me play a matriarch. I have never got an opportunity to play a slice of life character.”
Talking about how she chooses which roles she does she says, “An actor can only choose and pick the best that they think that comes their way. When I was signed Uttaran, the channel on which it aired was a new channel. Who knew that the show would become such a superhit show? So, an actor can only do their best in a given scenario and it ends there,” she says.
But acting was her dream since childhood and she is happy to be here today. “Both of my parents are doctors and they never understood the idea of me wanting to join the entertainment industry. But I always knew that I wanted to be an actor or at least part of a profession that keeps me in the limelight,” she says.
