She is known by her online handle MostlySane on YouTube, but Prajakta Koli is likely to gain new fans after making her official acting debut in the Netflix web-series Mismatched, which was released on 20 November.
The YouTuber has 5.89 million followers on her channel and plays many different characters in her online videos. For Mismatched, based on the novel When Dimple Met Rishi by Indian-American author Sandhya Menon, Koli had to audition alongside others for the lead role of the nerdy, geeky, ambitious character who wants to make her own app.
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However, Koli almost missed out on her debut, as she decided to audition for the part only at the very last minute. Recalling her audition, Koli said, “My audition is such a story because I was supposed to be on a flight to Tokyo the same time that my audition for the series was going to be. And then Tokyo was hit by a typhoon and my flight got delayed by four hours.
“So I then went for the audition directly from the airport, without having done my hair or make-up, still in the clothes I travelled in, which was a sweatshirt and sweatpants,” she continued. “I was wearing my glasses and I literally just dashed into the audition room, gave the audition, dashed back because I had to go to the airport to catch my flight, with zero expectations.”
Mismatched also stars Rohit Saraf as Rishi, Dimple’s love interest. Koli is currently shooting for her second acting assignment, Jugjugg Jeeyo (2021), with Anil Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Kiara Advani.