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Inayat Sood: So many times, I felt I’m going to die in my room alone
Updated On: 28 July, 2023 08:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma
Inayat Sood | Actor | Scoop actor, who battled loneliness and mental health issues after moving from Chandigarh to Mumbai, shows us the other side of the Maximum City dream
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Sood, who lives in Bandra, says the leafy lanes remind her of Chandigarh. Pic/Shadab Khan
Five years ago, if you asked Inayat Sood what Mumbai represented to her, she would direct you to her playlist—one that comprised romantic songs of Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001), and the young spirit of Wake Up Sid (2009). To the then-21-year-old, Mumbai was Bollywood, a romanticised version of the city. And as she made the two-hour-plus flight journey from Chandigarh to Mumbai in 2018, she was certain that the city would embrace the romantic in her. “I thought I would find true love and sit with him on Marine Drive,” smiles the actor, who was recently seen in Scoop.
But romance would have to wait, first came reality—a life-lesson that the city teaches you early on. Sood’s parents wanted her to enrol into a course while struggling to make it in the movies. For their satisfaction, she took up a one-year-long Integrated Media course at Sophia College for Women in south Mumbai, while keeping her eyes fixed on the Bollywood dream. She soon bagged her first feature film, Ajay Devgn and Tabu-starrer De De Pyaar De. But as she began living her dream, reality started emerging. “I had fallen in love with the city when I was in college because I was surrounded by friends and we were exploring the city like tourists. But when I started living alone, struggling as an actor, it all became too much. By 2019, after De De Pyaar De had released, I was ready to go home. All the romantic notions of Mumbai had broken. I had got scared of the city,” she reflects.
Living in a two-bedroom apartment in Andheri with three women, Sood felt pangs of loneliness. She realised that Mumbai was always running, only she had slowed down in the absence of her loved ones. “While in college, I lived in a hostel. Your world in college is as big as the campus. Right after college, I was working with Ajay Devgn and Tabu. From a tiny world, I was on set with the biggest of stars. It was overwhelming. When the girl I was sharing my room with left, I felt I couldn’t live alone in that space. I realised I couldn’t live alone in Mumbai,” recounts the actor.
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