The young actor who has gained fame across OTT, theatre and movies, has a simple motto: As long as she gets to act, the medium or language doesn't matter. And it's helping her make her mark
The internet then provided a string of achievements for Mithila Palkar, through popular web shows like Girl in the City, Official Chukyagiri and Little Things, and sketches on YouTube
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Mithila Palkar’s success as an actor, riding largely on the back of digital streaming platforms, is also the story of her 94-year-old grandfather learning how to use the internet.
When Palkar, a mass media graduate, decided to give it a year to try her luck in the entertainment industry, she was living with her maternal grandparents in Dadar, and her grandfather refused to believe that she was stepping out of the house to do serious work. Then, in 2016, a Marathi news channel featured her â€Cup Song’ video that had gone viral on the internet, in which she had performed the Marathi song Hi Chaal Turu Turu in a style inspired by Anna Kendrick from the film Pitch Perfect.
“It was only when my grandfather saw me on TV that he thought I had a stable career. He did not realise I was on TV because I went viral on the internet,” Palkar says.
(This story appears in the 31 December, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)