{"id":4347,"date":"2016-03-08T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:32:18","slug":"sanya-malhotra-photograph-ritesh-batra-dangal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sanya Malhotra, No Longer \u201cThat Dangal Girl\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>ack in December 2016, when Nitesh Tiwari\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released to record-breaking success, it transformed the lives of Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra, the debutantes who essayed the older versions of the wrestlers, Geeta and Babita Phogat. Typical of any <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dil-chahta-hai-akshaye-khanna-dimple-kapadia\/\">Aamir Khan<\/a> project, even <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 an ambitious wrestling origin drama \u2013 amassed breathless attention before, during, and after its completion. But for Shaikh and Malhotra who were swiftly branded the \u201cDangal girls\u201d, the experience of witnessing their film become a cultural event, felt surreal. Moreover, their moment in the spotlight was underlined by an unusual impediment: As newcomers who were also outsiders, how could they follow up <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, immortalised as the highest-grossing Hindi film<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanya Malhotra had to wait just a few days that December to solve the conundrum. Amid the congratulatory calls for<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, came an offer for her second film: a lead role in Ritesh Batra\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cRitesh sir called me two days after <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released,\u201d Malhotra tells me when we meet at a noisy \u201celite club\u201d hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/long-distance-mumbai-monsoon\/\">Andheri<\/a>. \u201cI liked the script and auditioned for the role when he flew down to India.\u201d A yoga convention and the cacophony of kids frolicking in the hotel\u2019s pool provide an unnecessarily amusing backdrop to our conversation; Malhotra remains unperturbed by the disturbances, and despite a day of promotions, unreasonably animated. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now three years later, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Malhotra\u2019s fourth release, even though it was the second film that she shot for in 2017. In the film, she plays Miloni, a meek CA topper whose sheltered upbringing in an upper-class, conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/humour\/apology-on-behalf-of-gujjus\/\">Gujarati<\/a> household in Mumbai, renders her existence almost robot-like. It\u2019s a role that exists on the opposite side of the spectrum of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Babita Phogat. \u201cWith <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I could use wrestling as a medium to get inside Babita\u2019s head,\u201d she says. \u201cWe trained for almost a year, so I was aware of the body-language of my character, even before we started shooting.\u201d But <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s Miloni \u2013 by her own admission \u2013 was rooted in anti-physicality, which posed a challenge: \u201cFor Miloni, I had no external device like that to enter her world, because it was such an internal role.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Sanya Malhotra comes across as someone still unaffected by stardom, despite being a part of two spectacular box-office successes.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malhotra is extraordinary in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 the film is solid proof of her versatility. Like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lunchbox<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Malhotra is a self-confessed fan), even <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hinges on two strangers from different parts of Mumbai finding their way to each other. But it strays from Batra\u2019s breakout hit, when it comes to their respective female protagonists. As Miloni \u2013 a girl whose familial expectations rob her off agency over her body and life \u2013 Malhotra has minimal dialogue in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And yet, the actress uses it to her advantage, turning in one of the most expressive performances by a Hindi film heroine in recent times. She achieves that feat by using every body part, especially her eyes and a hesitant, awkward body language, to convey the emotions simmering in Miloni\u2019s head.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we talk, Malhotra exudes a quiet confidence while dissecting her performance in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that she insists is a result of \u201cdoing 30-35 takes for almost every scene\u201d so that they could keep improvising and working alongside actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Kulkarni. The actress particularly remembers being influenced by how Kulkarni would approach her role, \u201cDuring my workshops with Geetanjali before the shoot, I noticed that she would keep jotting down backstories for her character in a diary. One day, she made Ritesh sir listen to some Bihari music because she felt that Rampyaari (Geetanjali plays a maid in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) would have listened to that.\u201d <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating backstories for her character is a lesson Malhotra claims to have carried forward to the two other films \u2013 Vishal Bhardwaj\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/pataakha-review-vishal-bhardwaj-radhika-madan-sisters\/\">Pataakha<\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Amit Sharma\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/badhaai-ho-review-sex-gajraj-rao-neena-gupta-ayushmann-khuranna\/\">Badhaai Ho<\/a> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 she acted in last year. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pataakha,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> her first lead role, Malhotra dived into another physical character similar to her outing in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In Bhardwaj\u2019s tale of two warring Haryanvi sisters who can\u2019t live with or without each other, she played Genda \u201cChutki\u201d Kumari, the academic younger sister. Malhotra infused a delightful and uninhibited irreverence to her performance that, along with Radhika Madan\u2019s fearless act, redeemed the middling film. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1552572786.jpg\" alt=\"Sanya Malhotra\" width=\"775\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47001\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Sanya Malhotra is extraordinary in <em>Photograph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Amazon Studios<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badhaai Ho<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of last year\u2019s surprise box-office successes, the actress had a supporting role as Renee, a young Delhi girl whose boyfriend\u2019s biggest problem is that his middle-aged parents still have sex. I ask her whether the limited screen time of her character was ever a concern and pat comes the reply, \u201cNot at all. I had a limited screen time in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well (she makes an appearance way past the one-hour mark in the film). But can you imagine turning down these films because of limited screen time?\u201d <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a rare display of self-awareness for an actress who is only four films old, but it also explains Malhotra\u2019s transition into Bollywood, minus the urgency to star only in\u00a0big-budget films. Malhotra\u2019s filmography instead, points to a penchant for digging out filmmakers who could offer her perspectives and characters that challenge her. In comparison, her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> co-star, Fatima Sana Shaikh\u2019s filmography boasts only of a cameo in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/thugs-of-hindostan-review-aamir-khan-amitabh-bachchan\/\">Thugs of Hindostaan<\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the highly anticipated period epic that sank without a trace. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malhotra comes across as someone still unaffected by stardom, despite being a part of two spectacular box-office successes. She even managed to choreograph a song in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secret Superstar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in between acting in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pataakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badhaai Ho<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last year and admits that she&#8217;d probably take a &#8220;sabbatical in a few years&#8221; to learn something new. For now, the evidence of how far she has traversed in Bollywood is in her next project: Anurag Basu\u2019s untitled multi-starrer, that reunites her with Shaikh after four years. Only one of these ladies is no longer \u201cthat <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> girl\u201d. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last three years, Sanya Malhotra has acted in films like Pataakha and Badhaai Ho, which offer a testament to her versatility. 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