India, Nov. 26 -- Actor Aneet Padda may be a breakout name today after Saiyaara, but her journey into acting began long before the spotlight found her. The young star opened up in a new Grazia interview about the moment she first realised she wanted to become an actor - and how a simple piece of advice from her mother changed everything.

Before her striking screen presence in Saiyaara, Aneet made her debut with Salaam Venky (2022), where she played Vishal Jethwa's love interest, Nandini. Yet, that wasn't the performance that made her fall in love with acting.

The 23-year-old recalled that her earliest taste of performance came in a school poetry competition, long before she knew what stagecraft meant."As a kid, I was this oblivious chil...