EXCLUSIVE interview of Sanjana Sanghi on her film 'Dhak Dhak': 'We didn't get a chance to promote our film'

Sanjana Sanghi was recently seen in the film Dhak Dhak. The title suggest heartbeat. The film is about four female characters and how they embark on a journey to justify the title. One of them even says that the heart always beats, but this is the first time I’m hearing a Dhak Dhak. In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, Sanghi spoke about playing this character, how her prep for the film was like, and if it needed that extra push when it came to marketing, promotions, and release. Edited excerpts from the interview What are the responses you have received for the film so far? The responses are genuinely and overwhelmingly positive, far far beyond my expectations. There are two parts to it, one, a week up to its release, we didn’t get a chance to promote our film so there was a huge worry about people even getting to know about it, but we did a whole lot of industry screening for our friends within the fraternity. Shabana Azmi , Vidya Balan, Ali Fazal, Naseeruddin Shah , a whole bunch of people whose opinions matter to me watched the film and you can see the genuine joy in someone’s eyes. The rest were the lovely reviews and the audiences’ opinion so no complaints. How similar are you and your character Manjiri? I asked this a lot. She’s a very protected girl from a small town like Mathura and she has never stepped out of the real world, but Sanjana hails from a big city like Delhi. I was only 13 years old when I was selected for Rockstar. I kind exposure to the real world very early on. We both kind of wear rose-tinted glasses, we both like to believe good in people and things. I also have a childlike curiosity for the unknown. How was the experience of biking on the mountains with all your co-actors? I prepared for this like I would for any role. There was a dialect I had to learn called the Brij Bhasha, there was a whole new skill like biking that I had to learn, and all the biking scenes in the film have been done by us. Riding a 250-kilo Royal Enfield on the Himalayas while filming is no joke, and it takes a lot of training and effort, but it was all a blast. This is the kind of stuff dreams are made of. Do you think the film deserved a much wider and more publicised release? I absolutely believe that. We all have given our heart and soul to the film. To make a film like _Dhak Dhak_ in the first place itself requires a lot of grit because it doesn’t have any commercial tropes of Hindi cinema. When we didn’t get to go around and tell people about the film, that did feel bad because we knew we really made something that would touch them. Our trailer released only three days before our film and that’s something that has never really happened before, so people were confused if our release date was really 13th October or not. I also understand these are things actors can’t have control on, these are purely marketing decisions, but what I am proud of is that the film has its own merit and has experienced rebirth. We have doubled our number of screens and tripled our number of cities. This shows what great content can do. I’m only focusing on the silver line right now.

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