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‘Monkey Man’ Star Sobhita Dhulipala On Being “Accountable” As An Actor & How Dev Patel’s Directorial Debut Changed Her Life


Sobhita Dhulipala talks 'Monkey Man', Dev Patel & Indian representation.

Born in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, she followed the career pipeline that takes a person from beauty pageants to acting, a path trodden by Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai and more. She left a degree in corporate law to represent India in Miss Earth 2013, and went on to make her acting debut in acclaimed director Anurag Kashyap’s psychological crime thriller Raman Raghav 2.0. Although she has appeared in several Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films, her most well-known role before Monkey Man was arguably as wedding planner Tara Khanna in Prime’s Video’s Made In Heaven.

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