Actress Mrunal Thakur is currently busy with the promotions of her upcoming film sports drama 'Jersey' which stars Shahid Kapoor in the lead. Mrunal, who also played the female lead in last year's sports drama 'Toofan', recently shared that she would love to play a sportswoman on screen someday.

According to a recent report in Koimoi, Mrunal said, "In India, we don’t make as many films on female athletes as much as they deserve to be told and made. It is important because, through our films, aspiring athletes gets encouragement and a whole new world opens up for them."

The actress further added, "I would personally love to essay a sportsperson on screen. To ready for it, to train for it, it’s inspiring and also extremely challenging. Because you’re embodying a person so far off from whom you are. And it will be something for me that would give me a wholesome experience to prepare, play and to hopefully understand getting into the skin of a character that is so different from whom I’m as a person."

'Jersey' is set to release theatrically on 22nd of April.