Mandana Karimi is a well-known Iranian actress and model based in India. After working on several successful modelling projects around the world, she appeared as a lead in the Bollywood film, Bhaag Johnny. She participated in the popular reality TV show, Bigg Boss 9 and became the 2nd runner up in 2015.
Mandana Karimi joins us at Women Fitness to talk about her journey to Bollywood, her favourite workouts and the perks of being a social media star.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Share your childhood in Iran, when did you first realize your passion for modelling and acting?
Ms. Mandana Karimi:
Well I come from a very strict and muslim background. I have always been very expressive but very shy. I really didn’t know anything about modeling or acting but I remember that I used to dance in front of the mirror in our bathroom and I used to do things like that when nobody was around.
When I grew up I realized that I loved taking pictures and I love being in pictures but I didn’t really know if I want to become a model and to be honest I just wanted to get out of Iran. Then modelling just happened and it was more of a late realisation for me and I became a model when I was eighteen and since then it’s been great, it’s been an amazing experience. Specially in the beginning because I used to make money and travel and as a teenager it’s quite fun.
Acting started for me much later on when I started doing a lot of TV commercials and I realized that I like being in front of the camera, I like the whole process of making films and being in front of camera so that’s how it started and to be honest it has nothing to do with my childhood because I have had a very extremely different childhood than any kids around me at this point and I didn’t train for it or have a dream to be a model it happened to me and i think it was early and Acting especially now has become my passion and it’s something that since the past two years I’ve taken very seriously. I’m training myself, I’m learning about acting and about myself, about my body everyday more and more and I think that has been my calling and I’m very lucky to do what I love.
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