Sreeleela reveals how medical career influenced her acting journey

Actress Sreeleela says her medical journey and hospital postings have shaped her approach to acting. Exposure to patients’ personal and emotional struggles, including experiences involving life, death and financial hardship, gave her greater perspective and sensitivity, she said

Mumbai: Actress Sreeleela, who is gearing up for the release of her upcoming film with Kartik Aaryan, has shared how her medical career has shaped the actor in her.

The actress opened up about how her exposure to real-life situations during her medical journey has helped her approach acting with greater sensitivity and perspective.

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Talking about whether her medical experience helps her in cinema, Sreeleela shared, “Definitely. 100 per cent. I feel it is important for an actor to have a lot of knowledge about everything around the world. General knowledge is also very important. Experiences and your sensitivity meter have to be high.”

She further mentioned that her hospital postings exposed her to several deeply personal stories and emotional journeys.

She went on, “Hospital stories, what I’ve seen in my course of being in the hospital or in my postings, was, people’s emotional journeys very closely. You see life and death, you see situations, you see people having financial situations to clear bills. There are so many stories. What is cinema? It’s a story and like that I’ve been grateful.”

“I mean I was exposed to around three, four stories like this every day, so it gives you so much perspective. It gives, it opens your mind up very differently. You’re very sensitive about microscopic things and you’re very real with. That’s what I say, that this side it’s just one colourful world, dancing, there’s wonderful costumes, there’s so many people and there’s a white coat. It’s a completely different situation. You’re seeing life and death, so that really matures you as an actor,” she added.

On the work front, Sreeleela will make her Bollywood debut with Anurag Basu’s upcoming musical drama.