{"id":19293,"date":"2018-12-04T18:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=19293"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:19:46","slug":"dont-want-to-box-myself-banita-sandhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=19293","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t want to box myself: Banita Sandhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British-Indian actor Banita Sandhu, who made her debut with &#8220;October&#8221;, says she does not want to limit herself to a particular genre.The 20-year-old actor says she enjoys commercial cinema and she wants to be associated with good content.\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to box myself into anything. I have done &#8216;October&#8217; and I am super happy. I want to be versatile and work with different creative people. If it is a massy film, great or if it is going to be independent film with first time director, that also will be great. I just want to be creatively passionate about the project.\u00a0&#8220;&#8230; We all have grown up watching (commercial cinema) and there is a reason they do well. But at the same time, I am so much driven creatively to push the envelope and boundaries and creating new content,&#8221; Banita told PTI.The actor received appreciation for her performance as Shiuli, a hotel trainee who goes into coma after a freak accident. The film also starred Varun Dhawan.&#8221;I am indebted to Shoojit Sircar (director) for trusting me with this role. It was a life changing role for me. It looked easy on screen but it wasn&#8217;t. We all worked as a team to pull it off. The response we got is incredible. I feel blessed and grateful to be part of the project,&#8221; she says.After shooting the film, Banita returned to the UK to film Diljit Dosanjh&#8217;s music video &#8216;Jind Mahi&#8217;.\u00a0The actor says Diljit approached her team for the song and she was excited to work with him.\u00a0&#8220;I am a Punjabi and my family like Diljit. They are more excited about this music video. I am a huge fan of Diljit and &#8216;Udta Punjab&#8217; is one of my favourite films. It was an enjoyable shoot,&#8221; she says.On films, Banita says she is yet to zero in on her next project.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Indian actor Banita Sandhu, who made her debut with &#8220;October&#8221;, says she does not want to limit herself to a particular genre.The 20-year-old actor says she enjoys commercial cinema and she wants to be associated with good content.\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to box myself into anything. I have done &#8216;October&#8217; and I am super happy. I want to be versatile and work with different creative people. If it is a massy film, great or if it is going to be independent film with first time director, that also will be great.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19297,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293\/revisions\/19297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}