Get to know...Sayani Gupta

The actor on her favourite subjects, her secret vices, and more

Get to know...Sayani Gupta

• Currently I am

  At the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival for the screening of Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Film, Badminton.

• High point in life

  Getting through the Film and Television Institute of India.

• Low point in life

  I have one every day.

• One thing I would never buy

  Animal print.

• Today I’m craving

  Coffee.

• Last thing I ordered online

  Hook rings for my mother to hang her plants.

• App I check before going to bed

  WhatsApp.

• Advice I’d give my 18-year-old self

  Do exactly what you’re doing; you’re fab.

• My favourite subject in school

  Chemistry, history... it kept changing. But it was always the tough ones.

• I’d swipe right on

  Any travel plan.

• My favourite Sunday memory

  Waiting for my father to come from the shops, in the hope that he’d got us some snacks. I was very young -- five or six years old -- but I remember it so well. 

• My most star-struck moment

  I’m not star-struck at all.

• My favourite bad habit

  Overdoing the caffeine.

• If I could travel back or forward in time, I’d…

  Rewind. I don’t want to see the future. But I’d like to revisit my father.

• The best thing about fame

  No queues!

• The worst thing about fame

  Everywhere you go, people want selfies. But sometimes you just don’t want to be recognised.