New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): For an “adventure seeker” that Nimrat Kaur says she is, professional acting came as an organic career choice to keep in touch with her “inner child” and make her life interesting.
Living the life of an actor is “nothing short of a dream” said Kaur, who believes in growing each day with less baggage.
“It’s been nothing short of a dream. I have never planned anything. I just go from day to day knowing that I want to keep my life interesting. I want to keep working with fun people and I want to keep learning from them… Unlearning the stuff I think I know. It’s very important to grow with less and less baggage,” the actor told PTI in an interview.
Kaur started off as a model and till date remains etched in the minds of the indie pop fans as the vivacious ‘girl in the theatre’ from Kumar Sanu’s hit song “Tera Mera Pyar” in 2005.
Eight years later came “The Lunchbox”, a tender love story, emerged as a turning point for the actor who played Ila, a neglected housewife who forms a bond with a stranger through a delicious change of fate.
Since then, Kaur said she made sure to attach herself with people who compliment her curiosity for life. “What keeps me going is (the urge) to keep the freshness of life alive, to keep in touch with the child within. I always make sure I attach myself to people who are like that. I’m a curious person. I’m an adventure seeker. I’m not a wild girl. I don’t live wildly, I live everything through my parts,” she added.
Whether it was appearing in the acclaimed American series “Homeland” as an ISI agent, ALT Balaji show “The Test Case” in which she played an Indian Army officer, or a homemaker who refuses to let of the Chief Ministership after she tastes power in “Dasvi”, the Pilani-born actor said she tries to do justice to her roles to the best of her ability.
“… Whatever I’ve been able to do so far, it’s been really fun to become different people because I think that’s pretty much why all of us are actors, because our real lives really don’t interest us beyond a point. And it’s almost to live your own life knowing that you won’t be able to escape it and become somebody else. So I have a lot of fun with everything I do,” she added.
Even while working on her latest project “School of Lies”, the 41-year-old said it was difficult for her to stay in the serious zone of the mystery drama series because the team was shooting in some of the most picturesque locales of Ooty and Coonoor
