Learning Hindi has been very difficult for Iranian-German model and actress Elnaaz Norouzi

Learning Hindi has been very difficult for Iranian-German actress and model Elnaaz Norouzi, who rose to fame with India’s popular Netflix show 'Sacred Game'.

The actress was recently seen in the web show 'Chutzpah'. Created by Mrighdeep Lamba, 'Chutzpah' has been bankrolled by producer Dinesh Vijan. Helmed by Simarpreet Singh, the show which streams on SonyLIV also features Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, Tanya Maniktala, Gautam Mehra and Kshitij Chauhaan.

The seven-episode series revolves around five stories that are interwoven with the internet. It exposes the different personas of the characters in their real and their 'delusional' virtual worlds.

In 'Chutzpaah', Elnaaz Norouzi plays the character of Sara Khan, who is a girl next door in real life and a sexy camgirl in her virtual world.

Talking about her character, Elnaaz says, "My character in 'Chutzpah' is funnily just like 'Sacred Games'. I'm playing one person with two identities - Sara Khan. Sara is a very normal girl, girl next door who's a wild butterfly in her virtual world as a camgirl."

"I am playing a camgirl who's quite a good actress in the world she has made for herself - the cam world. But, she wants to become an actor in real life as well and that's how she supports herself and makes money," she adds.

Sharing how she prepped for the amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Elnaaz Norouzi says, "I auditioned for the role and the makers really liked me. We did a lot of Zoom calls and had narrations over Zoom calls. There was a lot of back and forth because they really wanted to know how it will be shot and how I have to prepare for my character."

"Then I got a lot of links, of different camgirls, different pages where I could watch these camgirls, see what they do, and how it might look if we shoot it. So, the prep for 'Chutzpah' was all online because that time I was in Germany during quarantine," she reveals.

Elnaaz Norouzi was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to Germany with her parents at the age of 8.

The 'Hello Charlie' actress, who has been trying to make her mark in the Hindi film industry, says that learning Hindi has been very difficult. "I don't know why a lot of people keep saying that it must be easy for me because I am Iranian. I just really don't get it because it (Hindi) has got nothing to do with Farsi, other than a couple of vocabularies which might be the same because they're coming from Farsi," she says.

"But, it's been difficult because I've learnt a lot of languages and we have a lot rules in German or in French. In Hindi, however, there are not many, you just got to know this is the way it works. Also, I learnt most of it on my own. I learnt how to read and write on my own and not from a teacher. So, yes. it has been quite difficult," Elnaaz adds.

In a recent interview, the actress was quoted as saying, 'In Bollywood, every day is a struggle'. Ask her why she still chose to be a part of the industry, Elnaaz replies, "As a person, if I want something I go after it, no matter how hard it is or how impossible it seems. So, when I wanted to be in Bollywood, that's exactly what I did. I just went for it. I didn't know how hard it was going to be back then, but once I was in it and once I knew it was going to happen, I just needed persistence and hard work."

"Well, everything good, everything worthwhile or everything big that you dream of is going to be connected with struggle. So, I guess want to continue and one day the struggle will pay off," she says.

Norouzi reveals that her love affair with Bollywood started at a very young age.

Reminiscing her days in Germany, she shares, "As a child, I started watching Bollywood films because my parents liked Bollywood. And, in Germany, back then they were showing a lot of Bollywood films, translated in German. When I started watching them with my mom, I was just like, 'Okay this is what I want! I love this and I want to be a part of this. I want to do this."