{"id":409757,"date":"2026-02-05T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:47:28","slug":"sanya-malhotra-calls-female-athletes-superheroes-post-her-wpl-2026-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409757\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanya Malhotra calls female athletes \u2018superheroes\u2019 post her WPL 2026 performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">As Gujarat Giants faced off with\u2009Delhi\u2009Capitals in the Eliminator match of <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\/rcb-vs-delhi-capitals-wpl-2026-final-live-streaming-when-where-and-how-to-watch-dc-vs-rcb-live-on-tv-and-online-101770262736275.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Women\u2019s Premiere League\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Women\u2019s Premier League<\/a> 2026 on Tuesday, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/lifestyle\/fashion\/sanya-malhotra-ditches-her-natural-curls-for-clean-and-graceful-straight-hair-in-new-video-watch-101768274538790.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Sanya Malhotra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanya Malhotra<\/a> did a performance mid-innings which, for her, was an ode to female athletes. \u201cThis was the first time I felt so good performing. Performing in front of the crowd was thrilling,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/instagram__sanyamalhotra_1770281854315_1770281865792.jpg\" alt=\"Sanya Malhotra (Photo: Instagram)\" title=\"Sanya Malhotra (Photo: Instagram)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Sanya Malhotra (Photo: Instagram)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Sanya Malhotra began her acting career as a sportsperson on screen, playing the role of wrestler Babita Phogat in the 2016 film Dangal.\u2009The film made her a household name, emerging one of the biggest hits of Hindi cinema. But the experience gave her much more than just box office glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The actor insists that the training for Dangal helped her realise the effort and hard work it requires to be a sportsperson, and praises the dedication female athletes show. \u201cI have trained like an athlete for a year for a movie. It completely changed my mind towards fitness, towards discipline. I still somewhere try and match that life. The kind of discipline that the women athletes follow, the kind of routine that they follow, they\u2019re superheroes, honestly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Seeing these women in position of power motivates Sanya to leave behind a legacy that can empower the generations of women to come. \u201cI want to empower women because I get empowered by watching these women play on the field or even in my industry every day. I get empowered and motivated to be better at representing women and just being myself.,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The actor, who will next be seen opposite Rajkummar Rao in the slice-of-life comedy Toaster, adds, &#8220;As an actor, I follow a very disciplined life. I would encourage and I would want women to just be themselves unapologetically. Try whatever you feel like trying. Do whatever you want to do. Don\u2019t let anyone tell you that you can\u2019t do it, ever,\u201d she ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Gujarat Giants faced off with\u2009Delhi\u2009Capitals in the Eliminator match of Women\u2019s Premier League 2026 on Tuesday, Sanya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,89325,54831,152237,152236,152238,101,56,54,55,116475],"class_list":{"0":"post-409757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-dangal","10":"tag-female-athletes","11":"tag-rajkummar-rao","12":"tag-sanya-malhotra","13":"tag-sanya-malhotra-wpl-performance","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-womens-premier-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}