Sargun Mehta’s rise to fame

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“I am meant for doing big things.” Sargun Mehta talked about her transition from television to making a mark in the Punjabi film industry.  🎥 : Siddharth Kannan-SID K

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00:00I am a big-screen heroine.

00:01I used to cry day and night that one day I will learn.

00:04So everyone asked me, what are you doing?

00:06Who watches Punjabi films?

00:11Did you start your career in 2009?

00:13Yes.

00:15Meaning, 24 minus 9, 15 years.

00:19Yes, 15 years.

00:2115 years, not bad at all.

00:23Not bad at all.

00:30I am really attached to TV.

00:34If not for television, I would not ever be sitting where I'm sitting.

00:37In fact, television, I keep telling people now also,

00:40you know, a few of my friends,

00:41I say that maybe they don't teach you films.

00:44They don't have the patience or the time to teach you acting.

00:48Who is teaching you in films?

00:49No one is going to teach you.

00:51I used to learn on television every day.

00:53I must have performed so badly in my first year of career.

00:58And everyone was loving me.

01:00I was still okay.

01:01I could get away with it.

01:03I could get away with it.

01:05I used to learn on the set and I have learned to cry.

01:08I have learned to cry for 1.5 years.

01:10I used to cry day and night that one day I will learn.

01:13You know me because of television, not films.

01:15Of course.

01:15Let's get real about this.

01:17Sure.

01:17I understand and I admit.

01:19I got my first film because my hero's mother said that a girl used to come

01:25to Karol Bagh and play Beechwale Behen and the Punjabis used to call her.

01:30Which actor's mother was she?

01:31Amrinder Gill.

01:32Yes.

01:33When I went into the industry,

01:34in fact, I had an offer from a South film.

01:37So, the people who were managing me at that time,

01:38the people who got me South films,

01:40said that if a Punjabi does it, she won't be able to do anything else.

01:43I said, it's fine.

01:44I will go there.

01:45Because I am feeling that right now.

01:47So, you preferred a Punjabi film over a South film?

01:51Yes.

01:51Over everything.

01:52Over everything.

01:53I just wanted to do it.

01:56If I will do it, I will do it with these three people only or else I won't do it.

01:59Amrinder Gill, Diljit Dosanjh, Gippy Grewal.

02:01They kept saying, there are more people.

02:03I said, no.

02:04These three people and I will become one of these three people's heroine and make my debut.

02:08This is what I want.

02:10It was that bloody specific.

02:12I didn't even know when my first film became a super hit.

02:16I thought that when I did my first film,

02:19everyone asked me, what are you doing?

02:21Who watches Punjabi films?

02:22At that time, the environment was also like that.

02:24I am not calling people out.

02:25I am saying that they didn't know and I didn't know either.

02:27That the level at which Punjabi films are today, they didn't know at that time.

02:30So, I went ahead.

02:31I did the film.

02:32The trailer came.

02:33I went and told people that I did a Punjabi film.

02:35See, this is my trailer.

02:36This is my trailer.

02:37And I was like, okay, fine.

02:39Don't watch it.

02:40And there was Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bahubali in theatres and Mission Impossible.

02:45My three best films.

02:47In Canada, Mission Impossible was in like 400 seats.

02:52They literally swapped it on Saturday with Angrej.

02:56It was the biggest blockbuster that could be at that point of time.

03:01Did you ever have that feeling that I have conquered TV.

03:06But in a Hindi film, like Karan Johar's film,

03:09did you have that aspiration?

03:10That aspiration is still there.

03:12Why wouldn't it be?

03:13It is such a beautiful aspiration to have.

03:15For any actor and not only for an actor.

03:19I would want to be a part of every medium that is there.

03:22If I find out that these four Bengali people don't know who Sargun Mehta is,

03:26then I will do Bengali cinema here.

03:28My idea is that every person should know me.

03:31And should know me by my name and by my craft.

03:34I am a big screen heroine.

03:36I am made to do big things.

03:37So, I just feel like I want to do that.

03:39So, that big screen will be in any language.

03:42I will go everywhere.

03:43So, that big screen will be in any language.

03:45I will go everywhere.

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