Salman Khan’s niece Alizeh Agnihotri made her acting debut with National Award-winning director Soumendra Padhi’s film Farrey. The film opened in cinemas last friday and has received a positive response from the critics as well as the audiences. While she hails from a film family, Alizeh in an exclusive conversation with News18 said that one of her inspirations to become an actor was when he watched Imtiaz Ali’s Highway.
“I was on a flight returning home from college when I watched Highway. It inspired me to try my hand at acting as I realised there is a space for women to do very strong, empowered roles, a different kind of cinema is being brought into this country with this new generation of directors and actors,” she said.
Alizeh started workshops and over time, through practice and preparation she honed her craft. “I made a reel of all my auditions and started showing it around to people. I started getting good feedback. Farrey was offered to me in an organic manner. It fascinated me because, I thought, it was a different way to make a debut. Somendra (Padhi) sir has won a National Award. He has got a lot of credibility and that was the biggest thing about this film. It was a great learning experience because it felt like I was getting trained at a school of acting,” she added.
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