Sonakshi Sinha may have been in the industry only for 10 years but she had the spotlight on her from an early age, being the daughter of veteran actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha. Recently, on Kareena Kapoor Khan’s radio show What Women Want, Sonakshi said that she would feel weird when she was accompanied by her father’s staff everywhere.

"I would feel very weird that everywhere I went, someone would always come with me. When my father became a minister, I was in the 6th or 7th standard. Suddenly, heavy security and gunmen started travelling with us. I went to school and a jeep filled with security guards carrying guns followed me. The entire school was like, 'What is happening?'" she said on the show.

Sonakshi later revealed that she had put her foot down and told her mother, Poonam Sinha, to put an end to this. "I felt so terrible; I went and told my mother that I would not go to school until all this stops. I think that was my first taste of real independence, to make all this stop happening," she said. When it came to college, Sonakshi chose one that was far from where she lived, so that she could have the experience of traveling by train. “You have to learn these things on your own. Since childhood, I have that had thing about being independent. I want to learn things and grow as a person,” she said.

On the work front, Sonakshi will be seen next in Abhishek Dudhaiya’s war drama Bhuj: The Pride Of India, alongside Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt. The film is slated to release on August 14.