Hong Kong, April 18 -- It's around eight in the evening on our last day in Perth and Rashmika Mandanna has just joined us for dinner. She's visibly glowing even though she's been shooting for two whole days for our cover shoot - clearly, a 5 AM call time doesn't affect her anymore. "I just completed a three-hour workout, feeling so good about myself," she says as she sits down, leaving the entire table gobsmacked. A three-hour workout? After a 12-hour shoot? That is an insane level of commitment. "It's just that I've gotten back to working out after a really long time and I want to stick to this routine," she says.

Over the next 30 minutes, we discuss our cover shoot, shooting in Western Australia, her latest release

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