Former Miss India Earth Alankrita: I want to be like Angelina Jolie, to be next action hero of India 

My experience with Arjun Kapoor and with Vicky Kaushal was very different. With Vicky, it was our first commercial film together and Vicky has already been appreciated as a good actor. I was very happy working with him. He is a typical Punjabi boy who is down to earth and makes everybody laugh on the set. He has no arrogance and is very intelligent when it comes to playing any emotion. It was a fantastic experience working with him.

Arjun is very senior actor to me and if you are working with a senior actor, you learn so much from him. I learned a lot about the technical aspect of acting from Arjun. He was very friendly and I became quite comfortable working with him. He is a thorough gentleman on the sets.

With me, whatever our timings were on the set, he never really got angry. He claims that he is a cool person. Whatever is being said about him it is just because of the situation that might have sprung for some reason or the other. In front of me, he never yelled or got angry with anyone. He was very cordial throughout the shoot. He made me laugh a lot.

I will be going to London in August for another shoot. There are four girls in this film and it’s a great production house. But the thing is that the title of the movie has not been revealed as yet and they will make an announcement in July. I am working in another film and I am in Punjab for shooting the same.

I never compete with other actors as my mom and dad taught me to always compete with your own self. As an actor, my job is to please people and win appreciation. Of course, criticism is also a necessary part of this job. For Example, I can’t compete with Alia Bhatt as she is a senior actor so, I have to compete with myself and let the audience decide if they like my work. I enjoy a simple life and I want people to enjoy my work. Personally, my life is very different. So my effort is to strike a balance between my personal and professional life and do some good work.

According to me, this industry is a media industry so everything becomes bigger than it should be. There are a lot of girls in other professions who face such a situation. In fact, women face harassment in every field. There are people who give in under such circumstances and there are people who don’t. It is a matter of personal choice too.

If you can live with choices you make then you have no right to blame or accuse anybody of your own guilt. But if someone forces himself on you then you better take action against that person, be it anywhere, in the film industry, in a restaurant, or any other workplace.

Then there are some people who make false promises that he/she will offer you a film and for that, you have to compromise yourself. These are the people who consider the other person weak and think that they can have control over them. In such a situation, you have to stand firm for yourself because tomorrow you may or may not get a film but your self-respect will remain intact and that person won’t be able to face you.

I, as a person never faced it because I am very strong. My family and my friends have taught all of us girls to stand up for ourselves. My mother is also strong. At the end of the day it depends on your value system and women today are much stronger.

I want to be like Angelina Jolie, I want to be the next action hero of India.

I would also like to do some grand costume drama like Deepika Padukone in Sanjay Leela Bhansali films. But at present, I want to experiment with every genre right from comedy, drama to die-hard action flicks.