“My parents were worried that I might not be able to make it in the movies but I promised that I'd return as a star. They were still anxious and I said that if I won't get a chance to act then I'd marry somebody and settle down as a housewife,” says Anu Smriti Sarkar.
The petite graduate has only one thing on her mind — do films and more films. In the process, she has picked up the tricks of the trade and also the art of handling the media. Her answers seem orchestrated but one likes listening to her as the conversation is laced with confidence.
Ask Anu Smriti to describe herself she reels off, like a memorised answer, “I'm an extrovert, simple, innocent girl and I take time to talk. Hyderabad is very nice and I love the Biryani. Vankai Fry my first film might not have done well but my work was appreciated, so that works for me..” Anu is a Bengali but she stresses that she is a hardcore Mumbaikar, as the family relocated to the city aeons ago. On her second film Ista Sakhi , she says, “It has four heroes and I'm the only heroine. Out of us, three are debutants. A story that revolves around youth, it has these four boys wooing and pampering me in college, but there is a twist — a small secret about me is revealed but yes finally one of the four guys marries me. We also have many senior character artistes in the film.”
Anu Smriti has worked in Don Muthuswamy and she considers herself lucky for having been associated with Mithun Chakraborthy who played her father in it Four Bengali movies followed that. She avers, “Currently I'm doing a big Bengali film with Prosenjit that is releasing in summer.
I have also signed quite a few projects in Hindi, Telugu and Bengali but I'm not supposed to talk about it. Bengali films are made with small budget and are also not technically advanced like south Indian films, but it has become more commercial, they are now remaking Telugu and Tamil films. Remunerations are just okay though they aren't flattering like in the South.”
