‘My Perception Is That I’m a Damn Good Actor’: Adah Sharma on Blocking Out the Noise | Exclusive

Over a decade in Bollywood, Adah Sharma tunes out how others see her, focusing solely on her own acting conviction.

Q. Okay so after having spent so many years in the industry that is more than a decade now, what do you see as the biggest difference between how the industry people perceive you versus how you see yourself as an actor?

Adah: To be honest, I don't look at how anyone else perceives me.That is their thing because that changes all the time. I've seen people who like say just before Kerala story the way they talk to me or perceive me will change as soon as you hear the collections of Kerala stories.

So I don't base my perception on myself on what others think about me and that has been my life anyway from before also like my decision to do 1920 as my first film because like everyone told me you know do a film where you're pretty and where you don't look ugly and all like this because that was their perception of me.My perception is that I'm a damn good actor. The audience will connect with my performance and if I give an honest performance they are not going to hold me up for being ugly.

They will never say that if it's a good performance.So I will never really care about that. So I follow that. I think for an actor getting into what other people perceive you as, what somebody else thinks of you, I think all those are very limiting things and they come in the way of your performance then as an actor in that character and then you mess up.