Diana credits modelling career for Bollywood innings

By - IANS

OCTOBER 03,2016

Actress Diana Penty has attributed her entry into Bollywood to her modelling career.Diana began a full-time modelling career in 2005. She soon established a successful career as a model after walking the ramp for many of India39s ace designers, following which she made her acting debut in Homi Adajania39s 2012 directorial "Cocktail".Asked if she credits her modelling career for getting into Bollywood, Diana told IANS over the phone: "Yes, Of course! That39s why I am here in the first place. So, I am grateful for it." The Hindi film industry has seen many models including Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra, Sushmita Sen and Sonu Sood, who made a from the fashion world to films. Diana, seen in "Happy Bhag Jayegi", said: "It modelling can be used as one platform, Yes, and why not... I feel, as a model, specially India, there is only this much in modelling that you can do and after that it39s a natural progression into the world of films. It39s kind of one that leads to another," she added. The 30-year-old actress says "a lot of people start modelling if they want to get into films later.""But that doesn39t work for me. I was modelling at that time because it worked for me at that time, then I went abroad to model," Diana added.