Actress Sara Ali Khan, who recently stunned everyone with her look at the Cannes Film Festival, aspires to act in “meaningful” films and represent India at the prestigious event someday.

Attending the film festival in France came as a reality check for the Love Aaj Kal 2 actress, she said, explaining how being part of the event made her realise that she was a “small fish” in the sea of actors.

“I think the media back home has spoiled me a little. So suddenly you realise just how small a fish you are in what is not even a pond. It's literally a sea. And how much further you have to go, how much you have to push the boundaries, keep learning, keep growing. I mean I am not even one fifteenth hundredth the way I would ideally want to go,” she said.

“I would love to do that kind of meaningful work in cinema, represent my country in a way that my film is here one day, that would be the dream,” Sara added.

Sara considers herself lucky to have had the opportunity to play characters that are poles apart. “I think I've been lucky in terms of versatility. I just wrapped up Ae Watan Mere Watan and Murder Mubarak a week apart. One is directed by Homi where I am like a modern girl from Delhi. And in one I am a freedom fighter from 1942. So I think I've been given opportunities. I just hope I can be given more and more of that. I crave meaty roles, I crave working with directors I can learn from and I crave just being better and better.”

Sara is set to appear on screen opposite Vicky Kaushal in Zara Hatke Zara Bachke. She is also working on Jagan Shakti’s Ae Watan Mere Watan and Homi Adjania's Murder Mubarak.