Daily Times

MUMBAI: Sonakshi Sinha’s upcoming movie ‘Akira’ has created quite a buzz these days for its slick action sequences as she is seen fighting off a pack of hoodlums and reducing them to pulp with her kicks and karate-chops in the movie.

According to Sonakshi, she started training two months before the film hit the floors. “Even when the shooting was on, I had to keep learning the judo karate kicks to make the fight scenes more convincing and gut-wrenching,” says the actress who is reinventing herself with this role. Sonakshi is all praise for its director AR Murugadoss for deciding to do a woman-centric film. The actress also feels that girls should have a basic knowledge of self-defense.

When asked if it was really tough doing the martial art scenes, Sonakshi says that since she had been very active in sports in her school days, it was not that difficult to pull off action scenes as it needed quick reflexes and agility. “From throw ball, volleyball, basketball to swimming and discuss throw, I did everything,” says the actress.

Doing ‘Akira’ has a special significance for Sonakshi as she feels now that women sportspersons like PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar are bringing laurels for the country, it seems fitting that we celebrate the birth of a girl child in our country. After ‘Akira’, Sonakshi takes her action heroine tag forward with ‘Force 2’ where she is paired with John Abraham. According to her, the action sequences in ‘Force 2’ is more sleek and stylised not to mention some high-octane chase sequences.

Sonakshi also has no regrets about the films that she has worked in. “I have learnt from each and every movie that I have done so far even though they may not have been all hits. Yes, every actor, worth his/her salt, should keep reinventing himself/herself,” says Sonakshi. She still considers the 2013 movie ‘Lootera’ one of her best movies so far even though it didn’t really set the box office on fire.

Despite being the daughter of famous film star Shtrughan Sinha, Sonakshi was never made to feel that if she enters Bollywood, she will have it easy since she won’t have to struggle for roles. According to her, she would travel by auto-rickshaws and trains when in college. “We were made to experience what life is all about and there is no such thing as a free lunch. Whatever I am today is because of my hard work and struggle,” says Sonakshi.