How Indian British actress Banita Sandhu improved her Hindi diction for October

Banita Sandhu

Indian British actress Banita Sandhu will be making her Bollywood debut with Shoojit Sircar's October, opposite Varun Dhawan. The starlet says she hired a Hindi tutor for the role and is now looking forward for the British audience to watch the "international film and a beautiful piece of art". How did she master the language barrier? Banita said in a statement: "The film was offered to me a year before it was shot. So I hired a Hindi tutor. I was learning the language along with my university classes. Learning a language like Hindi when you live in London and people around you speak in English, it is very hard to pick it up."

The actress shared this problem with the director, who helped her improve her diction further by training her through video calls. According to her, the accent was the key aspect and she wanted to learn the Indian accent which Sircar helped her to attain. On Indian cinema, she said that language is no longer a barrier and with Hindi cinema if the content is good, the movie will be watched.

"It is another world where we can open our eyes to," she said. Banita said she has watched the movie and is proud of the way it has come out. "I am really looking forward for all the British audience as well to watch it. It is an international film and a beautiful piece of art."

October is set to release on April 13.

- With inputs from agencies

Catch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates

The inputs from agencies have been sourced from a third party syndicated feed. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text