mandira bedi she is fearless and a selfmade woman having played so many roles and experimenting with genres bedi feels fortunate to have completed 25 years in the industry she speaks with musba hashmi about her journey and new projectswhat is your role in thinkistan 2 abouti play anushka who is the head of an advertising agency she is positive and the most likeable character that i have ever played she is an encouraging and motivating boss she doesnt take credits of her own ideas instead give it to the youngsters just to give them a push she is the kind of boss that i wish i had in my working days she is the character who is loved and talked about positively even in her absence everyone in the organisation likes her she is good at everything she does and have the ability to create something out of nothing she believes in empowering the younger generation in the agencywhat prompted you to play anushkawhen paddy n padmakumar the director came to me with the script and narrated the story to me i was sure of taking up the project when he told me about the character anushka i loved it and was excited to play it these days i am being offered the roles of either a gangster or a cop and this was different and as i mentioned earlier it is the most positive character i have ever played so there were no reasons to turn it downyou debuted with shanti 1994 on doordarshan how did you come on board for the showi never thought of becoming an actor i was a media student my first internship was in an advertising agency with an ad filmmaker prahlad kakkar i wanted to figure out what would work for me writing for an ad agency or making ad films which was the field i was interested in it was pure destiny that prahlad kakkar was also the director of shanti he was looking for a girl to play the lead i was not from an acting background but he approached me for the role they called me for audition and i knew that it would get me no result because i am not an actor i went for it just for the sake of exploring the process after three rounds of auditions i got selected for it this is how i decided to go down the path of actinghow do you look at your journeyi am blessed and fortunate to have completed 25 years in the industry that too in the entertainment field women do not generally have a very long shelf life in this industry i just believed in going with the flow i only thought that as long as i am getting work its more than enough there were both ups and downs there were time when great work has happened with me and there was time when it was lull but i have