Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao star in Prakash Kovelamudi's psychological thriller, Mental Hai Kya and now Amyra Dastur comes onboard and have started shooting already!

Amyra shared a candid picture on her social media profile. She captioned it, “#MentalHaiKya”

It has been reported that Amyra will be playing the love interest of Rajkummar Rao in the upcoming psychological thriller. The film is written by Kanika Dhillon and produced by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures and Shailesh R Singh's Karma Media.

Amyra, the actress was last seen in the Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Roy Kapur starrer Kaalakaandi earlier this year. Another film in the pipeline is Leena Yadav’s Rajma Chawal where she plays the rebellious love interest of Rishi Kapoor’s on-screen son. The actress has already completed the shoot of the same.

Amyra Dastur is also part of Hindi remake of Telugu super hit film Prasthanam, titled as Prasthaanam alongside Sanjay Dutt and she will be seen playing Ali Fazal’s love interest in the film.

Sanjay will also be starring as the lead Loki alongside, Ali Fazal as his son and Amyra Dastur as Ali'z love interest. The political thriller's director by Deva Katta is supposed to be returning for his role as the director.

The 2010 film revolved around a young man who belonged to a powerful political family but wanted to expose the network between politicians and businessmen.

Sanjay Dutt was last seen in Bhoomi in 2017 costarring Aditi Rao Hydari. While his future projects include, Kalank, Torbaaz, Shamshera, Panipat, Total Dhamaal and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 apart from Prasthaanam.

Amyra ventured into Bollywood with the 2013 film "Issaq" and made her debut down south with the 2015 film "Anegan". 

Asked how different is the work culture between southern cinema and Bollywood, Amyra told: "The only difference is the language. I felt slightly alienated when I began shooting for my first movie as the entire crew was Tamil so they mainly spoke in Tamil and I couldn't understand a word.

"But gradually they warmed up to me and really included me and made me feel right at home."

The 24-year-old says she has had good and bad times in both Bollywood and southern films. 

"I have had good times and bad times on the sets of my Bollywood films and my South films. To me, filmmaking is the same no matter what language you're making it in. You've got to give your best in front of the camera and nothing less," she said.

Amyra is now gearing up for the release of the film "Kaalakaandi", which is slated to hit the theatres on September 8. The film also stars Saif Ali Khan.

"I began shooting for 'Anegan' (My first south film) right after we wrapped the shoot for 'Issaq'. My career began with both South and Bollywood and I'm just trying to find a balance between the two industries," Amyra told over e-mail from Mumbai. 

The actress says she loves both the industries equally. 

"I love both (the industries) equally but I'm doing more work in the South as the scripts I'm getting have fantastic content and good production houses backing them," she added. 

The 24-year-old actress says her priority is content.

"I'm more than happy to follow a good script anywhere in the world," she added.

She made her debut in 2013 with the film "Issaq" and has featured in films like "Mr. X" and Jackie Chan starrer "Kung Fu Yoga". 

"I want to balance both (Bollywood and southern film industry) of them. Everything is becoming way more global. We have seen a lot of south remakes in Bollywood and they are making Bollywood remakes in south as well. In fact, a lot of producers are making bilingual films," Amyra told over phone from Mumbai:

She added: "I think both the industries are really going to merge, and they have already started merging. So, I haven't put Bollywood in the backseat. I had to give up two south projects to complete ‘Kung Fu Yoga'. I had put south in the back for a little bit...I love everything about both the industries." 

Amyra forayed in Bollywood in 2013 with "Issaq", went on to do Tamil film "Anegan", Hindi film "Mr. X", Sino-Indian co-production "Kung Fu Yoga". She will also team up with Tridha Choudhury, Sundeep Kishan in a new yet-untitled Telugu coming-of-age romantic drama.