You are making a grand entry into Bollywood with Dhadak. Does that make you nervous?
I am nervous, but at the same time, excited. We spent the last year-and-a-half of our lives dedicated to this journey and now we are putting it out there for the world to judge and enjoy, and even dissect. For me, this has been a personal journey which is coming to an end and that feeling is a little emotional.

Did you always know that acting was going to be your choice of career?
Post school, I had no plan of going to college. I don’t believe in institutional studies. Formal education conditions your mind rather than giving you the freedom to explore. So, I wanted to enrol myself in different courses including acting, art history and a fashion course. I started out with an acting course [at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles], and I felt right at home. In one of the classes, I was performing in front of a camera and in another, I was on stage. Though I didn’t learn much through the course, I realised that acting was my calling. I expressed my concern to my parents, and told them that I didn’t wish to take up any more courses. After I came back, I worked on my Hindi diction and dancing skills.