‘Wedding Season’ Star Pallavi Sharda on Why She Left Her Native Australia for a Bollywood Career
10.08.2022 - 17:17
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPallavi Sharda didn’t have to look far to get into character for “Wedding Season.” The Australian actor and dancer stars in the Netflix rom-com as Asha, a New Jersey-raised attorney being pressured by her Indian parents to find a man and get married. To get them off her back, she convinces one of her set-ups (Suraj Sharma) to pretend that they’re dating during a summer wedding season.“When I read the script, I just thought, ‘I know this story,’” says Sharda, who is best known for her Bollywood career and television work in Australia. “I know this woman.
I have friends that are this woman. I have family who grew up in Jersey, like a lot of my cousins are from this part of the world. And my grandparents migrated to the U.S.
in the 1980s. All of my maternal cousins are Indian Americans.” I caught up with Sharda from her native Australia as she was getting ready to fly to the U.S. to promote the Tom Dey-directed movie.Congratulations on the movie. I watched the movie with my aunt, who is an 80-year-old Jewish woman from Long Island, and we loved it. We were laughing.I’m so glad to hear that.
That’s all we want.It’s a very universal. It’s not like Jewish moms don’t pressure their kids to get married.It’s not just a South Asian thing. Every parent is concerned about the future of their children and their happiness.
And I think that’s the whole point. It’s about them wanting to see my character happy.When did you know you wanted to be an actor?When I was about three years old. I had been inspired as a young girl by Bollywood because there were these magical goddesses on screen who looked like me and transported me into this world, which was in such stark opposition to my
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