Goan-South American model-actor Elena Fernandes, who made her Bollywood debut with a cameo in Kapoor &Sons as actor Fawad Khan’s secretary, has been shuttling between Mumbai and New York since she came to India four years back and became a strip model . About the film’s lead actor Alia Bhatt, she says, “Alia has grown better from each role that she has done. I hope they know it doesn’t make them any better.”Read: The movie star is no longer King, content is: Karan JoharActor Elena Fernandes is half Goan and half South American. While most models eventually graduate to a career in films, Elena says she had no dream of becoming a model yet she is happy with this gradual progression. Today after Kapoor & Sons, people take more interest in me and they know I can act too.”Calling it just the beginning, she says, “Of course, now the goal is to get bigger and better Bollywood films.

Source: Hindustan Times September 15, 2016 01:52 UTC