Needed to be aggressive about my career post Chak De India: Sagarika Ghatge

She is best remembered for playing Preeti Sabhrawal in superhit Chak De! India and actress Sagarika Ghatge says she she wasn’t aggressive enough about her career back then. The actress had impressed the audience with her performance of a determined hockey player in the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer, but what followed were films like Rush and Fox, which failed at the box office.

Sagarika will be now seen alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi in “Irada” and the actress is excited, hoping to be more active in her approach towards her work.

“After Chak De! India there was a lot of work that came my way but I was just not into them. I’m not very aggressive as a person, I think as an actor and you need to be a little aggressive,” Sagarika told PTI.

“Straight after my films, it is not that I did my PR or anything else. At the end of the day, your work gets recognised but a lot of people thought I didn’t want to act.”

The actress says she was “too young” during “Chak De” and wasn’t sure of how she wanted to go about with her career.

“So, you know there were a lot of dilemmas. That is what happened basically and then obviously there was a lot of time gap and people do forget you. I’m not saying you have to be in the media all the time. I am not somebody who’s comfortable always being in the media, I’m in my own space. But I think that didn’t work for me.”