Shreya Dhanwanthary: I would love to do a Telugu film

Actor Shreya Dhanwanthary, best known for her work in ‘Scam 1992’ and ‘The Family Man’, speaks about her new series ‘Mumbai Diaries 26/11’ and her early days in Telugu cinema

Mention Shreya Dhanwanthary and her work in The Family Man and Scam 1992 series are of immediate recall. She debuted in Hindi cinema with Why Cheat India (2019), but that was after she had worked in the Telugu movie Sneha Geetham (2010). Speaking on the sidelines of her new series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 which will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 9, Shreya discloses that she had always wanted to be a part of cinema, but didn’t know how. “Growing up in a non-film family, I didn’t know I could actually work in films. There was a notion back then that cinema in India was mostly a family-run business,” she says. She had the opportunity to work in Telugu cinema while studying engineering in NIT Warangal: “The director of Sneha Geetham, Madhura Sreedhar Reddy, is an alumnus of the same college. It was a fun experience, though I was very raw,” she recalls.