A former Miss India, Pooja wanted to be a restaurateur, but her mom wanted her to pursue acting.

“It was not a plan, neither did I get offers when I was modelling. After Miss India, I wanted to open a restaurant for my mother. But she wanted me to be an actor. And that’s how it happened,” she said.

Working in Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s production venture “Commando” was “a lot of fun and learning” for her.

Directed by Dilip Ghosh, “Commando” will release April 12.

Having played a multi-layered character in the film, she does not want to stick to any one genre in the future.

“In ‘Commando’, I play a fun loving Punjabi girl,” she said and added that her character is “brave and romantic… I have tried five different shades of acting, I enjoyed all of them a lot”.