Priya Anand is ready with her Telugu debut film, Leaderdirected by Sekhar Kammula. The political drama also stars two other newcomers -- Rana Daggubati and Richa Gangopadhya

. After completing her education in media and journalism in the US, Priya left for India to stay with her grandparents. Her first Tamil filmVamanan got her noticed. "Cinema has been an obsession since a young age. I thought I would work on the technical aspects but I never thought I would be an actor," says the chirpy actress.

"Opportunities have come my way but it's been quite tough to get where I am. I had to audition thrice for Leader to prove myself," she said“I wanted to do Telugu films when I started acting. My Dad is from there [Telugu]. I have early memories of watching Telugu films. I wanted to do a nice and big movie so when I got a call to audition for Leader, I did it. There were 50 others, too many to comprehend.”

“I love dubbing the dialogues. I started with Tamil and then did Telugu. Even though my mom is Tamil and dad is Telugu we spoke English at home. It was in fact a challenge to dub the English dialogues sans my accent. Dubbing as a process was easy. Getting the diction right was hard” The actress said.

Leader is produced by a big banner AVM. Sekhar Kammula wrote this movie, directed and he is also launching Rana with Leader. Releasing on 12th of february.