Ananya Panday shares glimpse of herself doing ‘Trataka meditation’

Bollywood actress Ananya Panday has shared a glimpse of herself doing “Trataka meditation,” a practice that involves staring at a single point or object to achieve a state of deep meditation. Ananya took to her Instagram stories, where she re-shared a picture of herself originally posted by Anushka Yoga.

In the image, the actress is seen staring at a lit candle placed on a table in a corner of a dark room. Anshuka Yoga wrote: “Ananya Panday practicing #Trataka meditation. Focus, stillness, clarity.” Ananya re-shared the post with just a candle and joined hands emoji as the caption.

The word “Trataka” comes from Sanskrit and means “to gaze” or “to focus”. It is an ancient practice t and is part of the spiritual traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. It was originally used as a cleansing process for the mind and internal organs. Last month, Ananya posted a picture wearing her late “dadi” Snehlata Panday’s silver anklets on her Instagram stories. She captioned it: “Found my dadi’s payals.”

On the professional front, the actress made her debut with Karan Johar’s “Student of the Year 2” in 2019. She was last seen in “Call Me Bae” and “CTRL,” both of which were OTT releases. She will next be seen sharing screen space with Lakshya Lalwani, who made his film debut with “Kill”, in the upcoming romantic movie “Chand Mera Dil”.

Ananya and Lakshya took to their respective Instagram handles, where they shared several posters from the upcoming movie, which hinted that the movie is all about “love”. The film, which will release in 2025, is directed by Vivek Soni, who has previously made “Meenakshi Sundareshwar”, starring Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani in 2021.

She has reportedly been cast in the lead role for an upcoming film starring Akshay Kumar and R. Madhavan. Produced by Dharma Productions and directed by Karan Singh Tyagi, the yet-to-be-titled drama will tell the inspiring story of C. Sankaran Nair, the renowned lawyer who took on the British Empire in the 1920s through a historic legal battle.

Meanwhile, Ananya recently took to the stories section of her Instagram handle and dropped a throwback picture with Jackie Shroff. The unseen picture features a young Jackie Shroff holding little Ananya Panday in his arms. “We’ve come a long way @apnabhidu,” the diva captioned the post.

Formerly, Ananya Panday and Jackie Shroff came together for a Spotify advertisement. The clip shows the two mimicking each other. The actress can be heard saying in Jackie Shroff’s iconic style, “Bhidu banna bohot easy hai, December mein thandi, bhindi mein chaukandi, kya bolta hai.”

On the other hand, Jackie Shroff is a part of the ensemble cast of Tarun Mansukhani’s “Housefull 5”, along with Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Nana Patekar, Chitrangada Singh, Soundarya Sharma, and Chunky Pandey.

Indo-Asian News Service