What’s the key to not giving up? Actor Sayani Datta says family has been her biggest emotional support, right from the beginning.
“My family has been a great emotional support. I always believe that all that one needs is an emotional push from one’s core people. I belong to a very forward-thinking Bengali family. When I decided to shift to Mumbai, no one was giving me work in Kolkata. I had to garner tremendous will-power and strength to make the shift, even though the fact that I did my college education in the city helped me a lot. My Baba and Dada really pushed me to shift gears and move to Mumbai. Whenever I would fail in an audition, my family would always say, ‘Hoye jabe, hoye jabe’. That really helped,” shares the actress whose next, her first Bollywood film, is releasing in digital space tomorrow.
Sayani also feels you have to be financially strong to survive in Mumbai every day. “Rejection is really very tough, it’s humiliating in a way, and it does get you depressed. It would happen to me in Kolkata too. I would be called for a role, but people would eventually only work with those who were part of their lobby. When I would go for auditions to certain production houses in Kolkata, they wouldn’t even look at me. I felt like I had committed a sin each time I went to see if there’s any good role for me,” recalls the actress whose last Bengali film ‘Jadu Kadai’ was opposite Rahul Banerjee.
She adds in Kolkata, only Satrajit Sen and Riingo gave her work. “Apart from that, I couldn’t really take the work culture thereafter a point. I had to break away, I had to move to Mumbai. The fact that I am in this position today, that I have a film in hand, is only because of my family,” signs off the talented actor saying that she is now practical enough to say that she’s prepared for everything
