At a Metro station, I got called out by my character name - Meera - and I realised that I had started responding to that quite intuitively. It was quite a funny moment.

Mithila Palkar

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I believe in comfortable yet stylish dressing.

dressing stylish i-believe believe

I just ignore the negative people and trolls. They stop bothering you when you don't acknowledge them; it suits me just right.

ignore me you people

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

mother-tongue tongue mother comfort

It wasn't easy to leave my comfort zone and chase my dreams. However, it is important to believe in yourself.

yourself dreams believe-in-yourself

In a way, I feel my curly hair has got me a lot of attention, and I don't mind it.

feel me mind hair

I believe, as an actor, I want to tell stories.

tell i-believe want believe

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.

thing one-thing work sleep

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

skill i-am performance good

I was 12 when I was on stage for the first time and had an epiphany that this is what I wanted to do.

first stage first-time time

I'm a hopeless romantic and a believer in handwritten letters.

believer hopeless letters romantic

I get along with people quickly.

quickly along get people

I was a science student in junior college, but I knew I wouldn't pursue a career in the field.

student career college science

I have grown up watching Marathi plays and craved to be a part of it.

grown watching part up

If there is something that I want to do, I will definitely try to do it and not just let it go.

will try go want

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.

will small place matter

Who does not want to work in Bollywood?

who bollywood want work

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

daily doing see myself

My grandparents came from a typical Marathi family, where they respect the value of rules and regulations.

value rules respect family

When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they sent my sister and I to live with our nana-nani at Dadar.

live parents sister travel

The cutest part is that both my grandparents have tried to adapt to my dream. When I sat them down and showed them a film that I did - with an intimate scene in it - I was surprised that their reaction wasn't dramatic. My grandmother even came to me to ask, 'How do you do it?'

down me you dream