Inspirational videos helped Pooja cope with disastrous debut

It was hard. I worked on my skills during that time. I would go on YouTube to search for inspiring videos and something that I could connect to,” Pooja said. “When the opportunity came, I just grabbed it and I was prepared for that opportunity,” she added, while speaking on the web show, 11 Mantras Of Being Unstoppable with Ananya Birla. The former beauty queen made her acting debut with the Tamil film Mugamoodi in 2012. She had a stint in Telugu cinema after that, following which she ventured into Bollywood with Ashutosh Gowariker’s mega-budget historical fiction Mohenjo Daro opposite Hrithik Roshan in 2016. The film was a disaster at the box office.