I will enter politics in the future: Raashi Khanna

Chennai

We meet Raashi Khanna at a city hotel just before her flight. She greets us in Tamil and speaks the language fluently. “I learnt Tamil via Zoom call this lockdown. My teacher gave me homework every day. I used to complete them like a school kid. I was her best student and in fact, I spoke better Tamil a few months ago. I didn’t have anyone to talk to in the last few days,” she begins.

The actress says that she learnt the language in order to understand and emote dialogues in a better way. “I felt that it would be better if I dub for my own dialogues,” she adds. Raashi says that she has always been a studious girl. “When I was in school, I aspired to become an IAS officer. However, after a photo shoot, I landed acting offers, and being an actor helps us to know and live the life of all other professions.

Now that I cannot become an IAS officer I will surely become a politician in the future. Before that, I would start an NGO and hear out to people in need and help them.

I don’t know to do politics but I know to help people,” Raashi reveals.

On the work front, she has completed shooting Tughlaq Darbar with Vijay Sethupathi and Sundar C’s Aranmanai 3. “As I said I am planning to dub for my character in Thuglaq Darbar and we have completed shooting for Aranmanai 3. I have signed other films among which one is a big project that I am not supposed to talk about,” the actress says.

On her choice of films Raashi says that she has started to do roles that will not let the audience call her just a pretty face. “Tamil movies have also started to offer me good projects in which I have performed. Tughlaq Darbar will be proof of that. I was also amazed by the way Vijay Sethupathi carries his roles. He tells us the nuances of performing. He is a wonderful actor. Coming back to my choice of roles, I was offered another actress’ role in a Malayalam film for which I said no to because glamour isn’t everything and I ended up playing a cop in the film,” she explains.
 
Raashi despite working across industries has managed to keep rumour-mongers quiet. “It is because I don’t open up to a lot of people. Only once I was linked with an Indian cricketer, who I have never met. I only know that he is a bowler. Apart from that, there haven’t been any I believe,” she concludes and leaves to the
 airport.