More than 15 years ago, when Aditi Rao Hydari entered the world of movies, she was told that her softness and naivete had no place in the industry. That she would have to build nerves of steel to survive the harshness of showbiz. “I might be naive and sensitive, but they are my biggest strengths. In the beginning, everybody used to tell me, ‘You are too soft and naive. You have to be harder and thick-skinned.’ But after a couple of years, I felt this is not me,” she recounts.

Aditi Rao Hydari and Aparshakti Khurana play movie stars in the series