What If...

Abigail Jain shares her aspirations with TellyBuzz's What If…..

"If not an actor I would have been a news reporter because as a kid I really looked up to Barkha Dutt and the way she reported the Kargil War. Since then I had always wanted to be like her and had decided that I would be reporting the next war sporting a hair cut similar to hers. And it was not just because of her, I had loved journalism as a profession and hence I had planned my studies also accordingly. 

But destiny had some other plans for me. When I was 15 years old, there had been a notice for auditions put up outside my school and my friend wanted to try it out. But she was getting scared and so I accompanied to audition with her. I got lucky enough to get selected. After I got into acting I had never thought of looking back because I knew that the profession will be exciting like reporting unlike the others wherein we just have to sit in the office. 

So far everything had been exciting and I did a lot here in this field; I traveled, hit and also got hit (laughs). And I do not regret getting into this field at all. So I guess whatever I could have done with news reporting, I am doing right now."

Reporter and Author: Saranya Valsarajan