Holi 2022 EXCLUSIVE: Pooja Hegde shares her plans for the big day; Says ‘I am going to relax, watch a movie’
Pooja Hegde had made her Hindi film debut with Ashutosh Gowariker’s action-adventure film, Mohenjo Daro, with Hrithik Roshan.
Holi is around the corner, and in an exclusive conversation with Pinkvilla recently, Pooja Hegde opened up on her plans for the big day. “I really don’t know. Maybe I am at home just watching something,” says the actress, who was recently seen in director Radha Krishna Kumar’s period romantic-drama Radhe Shyam with Prabhas. Pooja says that as a kid she loved to play holi.
“I remember coming back of being different colours because you know the colour used to just stay. Now as an actor, I just don’t have the liberty of playing holi because I am always shooting something, and I am always in continuity for something, so I don’t want to take the risk. Also, I am shooting so much most of the time so I am just going to relax, watch a movie, and catch up on something,” Pooja shares.
She was also a part of Salman Khan’s Da-Bangg tour in Dubai recently. Talking about her experience, Pooja states, “He (Salman Khan) was very chilled out. I think I was more stressed because it was my first live (performance) in a long time. I have done live performances at a couple of award shows, one or two award shows before, but I am not used to doing live. I am an introvert and I have stage fright, so I had to rehearse and rehearse, for like three days I was just non-stop doing my steps. Believe it or not, if you woke me up in the middle of the night and if you played the song from anywhere I would have started the steps because it was so in my system. I was so scared that I would forget things, so I just rehearsed so much that when I went on stage I just had fun. People liked it and enjoyed it.”
Pooja had made her Hindi film debut with Ashutosh Gowariker’s action-adventure film, Mohenjo Daro, with Hrithik Roshan. She also has an interesting line-up of films ahead including, Beast with Thalapathy Vijay, Bhaijaan with Salman Khan, Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus with Ranveer Singh, Acharya with Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan, and another one with Mahesh Babu.