Shriya on being tagged as South Actress

Shriya on being tagged as South Actress. Shriya speaking to scribes, shared her thoughts on being tagged as South Actress. She said  “I was born in Haridwar. I lived there for 17 years of my life. Then I moved to Delhi, so I could learn Kathak from Shovana Narayan ji. That was a huge move at that point in time. Then I started acting when I was 17. And that was a huge step for my family because my dad's an engineer, mom's a teacher in DPS, and it was like ‘what!?’”

She added  “Because I was a small-town girl in Delhi, it was a cultural shock for me. From there to LSR and then when I went to sets, learning new languages, all of that, I feel really prepared me for life”

Shriya continued  “The kind of love South has given me really makes me blessed. My heart is South Indian, I feel.”

She added  “One of the things that I learned is that you are what you believe yourself to be. If you keep growing and learning and let life teach you things, you start living it better. But if you start thinking life is coming at you, or it's attacking you because people think like that for you, or they are boxing you, then it'll become a battle. While you can actually use it as a kind of flavour that this is what they think of me; this is my flavour.”

Shriya continued “People start saying these things or start boxing you, is when they're noticing you. Then you break that, and you become something else.”