she has been babita in dangal and chutki in pataakha but in badhaai hos renee sanya malhotra has finally found a role she can relate to the actress shares with us the unique challenge she faced in essaying a role that is almost like her in real life why sex is such a taboo in india and why she isnt competing for screen time in the filmbefore badhaai ho you have done dangal and pataakha both films where you play a rough and tough girl from a rural setting here you play a south delhi urban upper middleclass girl was this more in your comfort zoneit definitely is more in my comfort zone it is a character i could relate to lookwise and how she reacts to the whole thing that is happening which is nakuls ayushmanns character parents getting pregnant the other two movies had their own physical and mental challenges in this one i had to look like myself there was no extensive makeup or change in look like in dangal where we had to cut our hair i could totally relate to this character i am also from delhi so it was like i am playing myself i thought this would be really easybut it wasntit wasnt i had been shooting for photograph with nawazuddin siddiqui before badhaai ho in that film i play an introvert and i had gone into a shell was not talking to anyone so my first week of filming badhaai ho i was struggling i was fumbling with my lines i was really nervous i had to do multiple readings and talk to the writers and amit amit ravindernath sharma the director im so grateful amit was there har scene ke baad he used to come and talk to me ki dont worry aaram se kar tu isko you mention the physical challenges for a film where you have your weight gain hair cut and you look a certain way that helps you get into the character too but in badhaai ho where you look like your everyday self isnt it more challenging to still get into character without having a physical transformationyes i think the easiest roles are the most difficult i really thought renee her character in badhaai ho ke liye i wouldnt have to do a lot of homework like i have done for other characters but i realized that in dangal it was easier for me to get into the character because we did our training for nine months and that really helped us to look like wrestlers and feel like them in this one it was more mental i would say and thats difficult because you have to change your thinking i thought here i am playing practically myself so it would come naturally to me but i realized you cant go on the sets without doing your homework i used to do a lot of reading keep doing my lines i remember asking akshat ghildial who