Sukriti plays it safe!

All of 20 and Sukirti Kandpal is already being courted by one of the most wanted men on small screen.

From playing the lead in Jersey No 10 to being the new Riddhima in Dill Mill Gayye, Sukirti's life is on a roll. She’s not working round the clock and has chosen to devote time to doing one show instead. “I have just started working as Riddhima. I want to do justice to this show. I want to get settled in the show. Anyway, I don’t have the time for another serial at the moment,” she says.

Replacing Shilpa Anand wasn’t much of a challenge for her. “It was something new for me. I went ahead with it. I am glad the audience has accepted me. Even my co-stars have made me feel comfortable. They never compare me to Shilpa. Karan Singh Grover with whom I have the maximum scenes has also helped me a lot. Even the script was moulded, so I got the chance to build up a chemistry with Karan.” She has no problems when people call her by her reel name.

“I am absolutely fine if people call me Riddhima. I think it is a good feeling if the audience connects you with your character.” If not an actor, Sukirti would have been a lawyer or social worker. “I have done a lot of social work. I always want to help the needy and enjoy doing it too.” This fun-loving and jovial girl has been a school topper and has a bright academic career ahead by the looks of it. “I have been a topper for a few years. But I couldn’t continue to keep up to it in the last year as I started acting. I feel it is very important for a person to study as an educated person looks at things differently, is more sharp, sensible and has his own ideology,” she says. Point taken Sukirti!