India, Oct. 11 -- Hours before receiving the National Award, actor Manasi Parekh took to Delhi's Connaught Place, to buy a bag to carry it. Here's a glimpse from her shopping shenanigans and new-found love for the Gujarati Lane in Janpath.

From acting on television to learning theatre in the US, and then returning to India to pursue acting in cinema, Parekh's journey uptill the National Award has been a long one. "At the very start of my career, while working in a television show with Supriya Pathak (actor), I was having a conversation with her (about my desire) to go to New York to study dramatics and improve myself. Supriya ben (sister in Gujarati) told me, 'You have to decide you want to be a star or an actor!' So my journey has alway...