Sanya Malhotra on playing strong female characters, “It is my responsibility to inspire young women”

Shining star Sanya Malhotra has been garnering tremendous love and appreciation from the audience for her recent release, ‘Pagglait’. The film showed the actress as a strong headed woman, who didn’t budge to societal expectations and norms, which became an inspiration to many young women out there.

Her diverse filmography boasts of strong female roles and characters, which is in turn a blessing for many. In a recent interview with a leading publication, Sanya revealed, “I am attracted to these characters. As an audience, I love watching such women on screen.”

She further adds, “As an actor, I think somewhere it is my responsibility to inspire young women who are watching films.”

Over the past few years, Sanya has been playing roles, from which young women draw inspiration from. And being a director’s actor, Sanya has been able to meet the expectations of the audience with her impeccable performance in movies like, ‘Badhaai Ho’, ‘Pataakha’, ‘Dangal’ and ‘Shakuntala Devi’.

Other than this, Sanya has a vast trajectory of films to look forward to – ‘Meenakshi Sundereshwar’ and ‘Love Hostel’.