Updated On: 16 November, 2023 12:01 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Sit With Hitlist: How did Sushmita Sen end her eight-year hiatus? By calling three streamers and telling them that she wants to lead a project

Sushmita Sen
“Once a Miss Universe, always a Miss Universe,” insists Sushmita Sen, who won the coveted international title about 30 years ago. A life-changing moment, and there has been no looking back for this powerful woman. In our latest Sit With Hitlist conversation with Mayank Shekhar, Sushmita Sen talks about various aspects of her life, including the one which we are never tired of hearing – how she became Miss Universe.
She acted in a bunch of films post her pageant win, but took a long break after becoming a mother for the second time. How did she make her comeback with Aarya? Sushmita says she personally made phone calls to various streaming platforms to ask for work. “I called up the head of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hotstar, and said, ‘My name is Sushmita Sen, I’m an actor, used to be one anyway, and I’d like to come back to work,” she reveals.