Kriti Sanon: “A career in films is not considered a very secure career. It’s not a 9-to-5 job”

On Friday, actress Kriti Sanon talks about what was her backup career choice when she entered Bollywood in 2014. She likewise discussed how she was uncertain with regard to her acting career.

Kriti said her parents were stressed over her career in Bollywood.  “There was a point when there was. A career in films is not considered a very secure career. It’s not a 9-to-5 job. If your films work, you work, if they don’t, you might not get work. My parents, like any other middle-class parents, were sceptical about my career. So they said first you have to complete your engineering degree. Which I am glad I did because mentally I was at peace. I wasn’t desperate to get something. I was passionate. When you don’t have something to fall back on in life, you end up taking wrong decisions,” said Kriti at Agenda Aaj Tak 2021.

Kriti also uncovered how she was a studious kid and a ‘frontbencher’ however needed to sit at the back in light of the fact that she was tall. She said that she comes from an academic environment as her mom is a Delhi University professor and her dad is a chartered accountant.

She added, “They said you go and follow your dreams so that you don’t have any regrets later, but you must appear for your GMAT entrance exams. That score is valid for 5 years. So you basically have 5 years to try, and you can come back if it doesn’t work out.”