Mumbai Ne Mujhe Khud Se Survive Karna Sikhaya | #Guftugu with Divya Dutta

In this episode of Guftugu, Divya Dutta looks back at a career built on persistence, curiosity, and choosing growth over comfort.

She speaks about her early fascination with cinema, growing up between Amritsar and Ludhiana, and the decision to move to Mumbai to become an actor. Divya shares the reality of facing rejection for the first time, learning survival in a new city, and carving her own path without shortcuts. She also reflects on wanting to belong to both commercial and offbeat cinema, and how her understanding of craft evolved through work, not theory.

The conversation moves through friendships formed on film sets, the directors and actors who shaped her taste, and the way the industry’s patterns work, how certain roles become “the hit part,” and how, with time, roles began to be written specifically for her. Divya also talks about her love for travel, her fondness for everyday rituals like tea, and her life as a writer alongside acting.

A deeply moving section is about her mother, the loss she carried early in life, and her mother’s poetry collection Tanhaaiyaan, which Divya remembers and recites from, giving the episode an intimate, personal close.