`Jewel Thief` actress Nikita Dutta and her mother test positive for COVID-19

After actress Shilpa Shirodkar, Jewel Thief fame Nikita Dutta has also tested positive for COVID-19. Taking to social media, Nikita revealed that both her and her mother have been tested positive for COVID-19. 

Nikita Dutta tests positive for COVID-19

She took to her Instagram stories and penned a cautionary message that read, “Covid has come to say hello to my mum and me. Hoping this uninvited guest doesn`t stay long. See you after this short quarantine. Stay safe everyone.”

Currently in home quarantine, the actress is suffering only mild symptoms. However, as a precaution, the actress has decided to put all her work commitments on hold for the time being.

Shilpa Shirodkar recovers from COVID-19

Recently, actress Shilpa Shirodkar also tested positive for COVID-19.

Informing about this, the `Bigg Boss 18` contestant, wrote on the Internet. “Hello people! I`ve been tested Positive for COVID. Stay Safe and wear your masks,” she said.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise once again in the country with more than 200 active cases.

On Thursday, Shilpa shared that she has recovered from Covid and is feeling better. “Finally recovered, feeling fine, thank you for your love. Have a super blessed Thursday,” the `Jatadhara` actress wrote on her Instagram story, along with a still of Mumbai`s Bandra-Worli Sea Link.

Nikita Dutta`s work front

In the meantime, Dutta shared that she realized her Bollywood dream with Saif Ali Khan`s `Jewel Thief`. Talking to Mid-day about being a part of the thriller, she said, “We all know the hook steps of popular Bollywood numbers. It is what we all love [to do]. However much we say that cinema is real and great, which it is in parts, when you talk about the Bollywood that we have grown up to, [the realistic films] took away the filminess of it. So, it was exciting to be a part of that because I was getting to do what I have always [dreamed of doing]. The closet actor in all of us has somewhere enacted that in front of the mirror. I was told, ‘You aren’t a heroine until you have worn a saree in the snow.’ I am still waiting for that.”

She also spoke about staying real in the industry. “What I am trying to do right now, irrespective of Jewel Thief, is not follow a trend or get into the zone where everyone is blindly getting into the plastic world and looking like clones of each other. I am trying to stay true to what I saw growing up, which is to have your own personality, but at the same time try to adapt to what a particular film or story demands.”

This article first appeared on Mid Day