“I’m someone who loves people…I prioritise their love first. So I think that keeps me going, that makes me feel like it’s okay if I have to shoot two-three films at the same time. I still will. It’s okay if I have to do a double shift, but I will,” she said.And Mandanna can do anything to get love from her fans.”When a film is released and people watch it and show their love to me, it just gives me that high. And I crave for that high, I crave for that love. So, I can do anything to get that love from them,” she added.Her latest project is the Hindi historical action movie Chhaava, in which she stars opposite Vicky Kaushal.Directed by Laxman Utekar, Chhaava will see Kaushal in the role of Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, who was the son of Maratha empire founder Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.Mandanna essays the role of Sambhaji Maharaj’s wife Maharani Yesubai and she said the project came as a surprise to her.”I didn’t expect that it would come to me. And this was a massive, extremely big opportunity,” she said, adding that she sought guidance from Utekar and the film’s producer Dinesh Vijan while preparing for the part.”They told me to figure out the language bit of it and everything else will be taken care of. And for me, I was like, ‘okay, these are characters from our history books, so I can’t get it wrong. So what can I do more to get this right?’ “After that, of course, we sat for months and months for the language bit of it and in the end, during the dubbing time, we got it right.We pretty much reached where we wanted to go.”Chhaava is about Sambhaji Maharaj but Yesubai was the queen and has an impactful role in the movie, she added.”Whilst he (Sambhaji) was out there fighting the war, she had to run this kingdom. In his ten to twelve years of journey, about nine to ten years, he was in the war…And that part pulled me into doing the film because I just was blown away by how creative, like so smart and so intelligent these people were, and these are unsung heroes. And I wanted to be a part of the storytelling.”On the film’s sets, Mandanna said she had a great time.”I like more traditional attires than the western or whatever. So, I was very happy.”On set, I want to be like, I don’t know anything. So whatever the inputs directors or co actors give me, that’s what I portray. All of that preparation was done. And when we did our first scene, it just felt right. It just felt so beautiful. And it just felt like it was Sambhaji Maharaj and Yesubai Maharani. It was just their moment,” the actor said.Also starring Akshaye Khanna, Diana Penty and Ashutosh Rana, Chhaava is scheduled to be released in theatres on Friday.
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