'I've worked very hard'

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Actress Sanjjanaa confesses that she has worked really hard for her upcoming release Mahanadi.

“For a change, Mahanadi is a heroine-oriented film which has been shot with a budget of four crore. The director has immense faith in me and I don’t want to let him down. This is one of the very few films that has given a lot of importance to the heroine,”  Sanjjanaa tells Metrolife.
     
Sanjjanaa has also spent a lot of time — the maximum in her career — shooting for the film which is largely shot along the coastal areas and captures the life of the fisherfolk. “I play a fisherwoman, who is very ambitious and dreams of doing things that are almost impossible for her. The movie not only captures the dreams and aspirations of a fisherwoman but her life has also been linked with that of a river and involves many twists and turns,” she says.

Sanjjanaa adds, “My character is very strong and there are portions in the film where I’ve had to play up on my emotions. And that part was quite challenging.”

Sanjjanaa thinks her character in Mahanadi has given her a chance to experiment. “It’s a bold character and the story traces the journey of a girl to a woman. How a small town girl makes it big and shines among the rich and the famous is the crux of the story,” she avers. 

She will also be seen in Agraja opposite Darshan. “It’s a movie that is woven around politics, something on the lines of Sarkar Raj. I play a decent cameo,” she shares.

There’s also ‘Rebel’ with Aditya where she plays a Singapore-returned girl. “We spent a month in Singapore and all Suhasini and I did was to eat and hop in and out of almost all the malls. We bonded really well as a team and spending a lot of time together off screen helps during the making of the film,” she points out.

Sanjjanaa also has a couple of Telugu projects lined up.