Exclusive! Avneet Kaur: I'm glad people think Siddharth Nigam and I are dating...as actors our job is done there!

Avneet Kaur started her acting journey as a participant in dance reality shows like Dance India Dance Li'l Masters and Jhalak Dikhhla Ja, when she was just 10 years old. A few years later, she gotinto actitng and was a part of daily soaps like Aladdin- Naam To Suna Hoga, Meri Maa and Chandra Nandini. This 19-year-old now wants to try different mediums like OTT and films. Avneet exclusively talks to us about her career plans and rumours of dating her TV co-actor Siddharth Nigam, Excerpts....

I am currently focusing on my health which is the most important thing right now for everybody. I am building my immunity, I try to eat healthy things as much as I can. Earlier I didn’t have healthy eating habits, but now I really want to take care of myself. I haven’t picked up anything new in this period because I’m really demotivated and sad looking at things happening all around. Last year I tried doing some new things but this year I don't feel like doing anything. I just want to focus on my health.

I have some beautiful memories of my initial days which I will cherish for the rest of my life. Those were the things that got me where I am today and I am very happy with my journey so far. If that wouldn’t have happened, I would have been a simple girl living in Jalandhar and wouldn’t have ever come to Mumbai to understand my passion towards acting. I am happy that I got a chance and I was able to prove myself.

That stage of my life was all about dancing. But that gave me a push that I needed to get into acting. People really express themselves when they are dancing and I also learnt to express via my dance. Being a Kathak dancer, one of the key things is expressions and my teacher made sure that I understand my emotions and show them with my eyes. This really gave me that acting kick. Kathak is part of my life now, but I am unable to practise it daily. I do dance a lot, but I would definitely want to learn more about this dance form.

Each and every show that I have done till date has helped me shape myself into the person that I am today. Every show is equally important to me because I have learnt many things from various shows, and that has made me what I am today. But a show that challenged me as an actor was Aladdin- Naam To Suna Hoga. I never thought of riding a horse or fighting with men with swords and learning martial arts, so this show made me do it all and challenged me. This show has kind of shaped me into the actor that I am today.

It gave me the audience. People really liked watching Siddharth ( Nigam) and me in those roles. It had everything - drama, magic and romance. I have got a new audience because of this show, which is very young, and I am glad. I am happy that people related with the character that I played of Yasmin.

We are very good friends and we both have spoken about this earlier. I don’t get upset with people who link me with Siddharth or think that we are dating. Instead I am glad that they think we are dating because our job is done there. Our chemistry is so good that people saw us as Shahrukh Khan and Kajol. It’s a compliment for us and I even congratulate Siddharth that our hard work paid off and people do believe in the characters we play.

I really want to try the web space. I don’t want to do television for now; I want to experience something different and would like to challenge myself with new things that I haven’t done before. So serials are not part of that because I have already done that TV, so now I want to do reality shows, films or OTT.

I don’t think I am ready yet, but I would love to educate myself more about these shows.