I was very nerdy: Sara Ali Khan

Singapore, Jan 28 (IANS) Actress Sara Ali Khan, who is currently riding high on the success of her latest release "Simmba", says acting has always been a dream for her, but then she got distracted because she was very "nerdy".Was performing in front of the camera her first career choice?"When I finished the tenth grade, I was almost convinced that I wanted to do medicine. But the thing is that I have a mild tremor problem and I realised that I can't do surgery. So, I decided to do law and I studied History and Political Science. But then in my last year, I did an acting course," Sara said at a Leadership Lecture Series of Global Indian International School here on Sunday. The 25-year-old actress said she was always studious.Describing herself, she said she is "somebody that till date loves reading and has studied almost every subject and has thoroughly enjoyed it in a university like Columbia and a city like New York". But the rush that she felt while doing theatre on stage, she says she had never felt like that."That's when I knew what I knew since I was a child."Sara said her mother used to take away her books. "Acting has always been a dream, but then I got distracted. Firstly, I was really fat and secondly I was very nerdy, and the combination meant that I shouldn't be acting. So I used to keep studying and there was a time when my mother used to confiscate my books because she would say it's not normal to study so much," she said.
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