A well-written character is one where you don’t know in which direction it’s going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.
— Rasika Dugal
Women often get ignored from main narrative, especially in films.
Because I feel as actors we are required to be vulnerable, it is a part of our job. So the space that you are being vulnerable in should respect that, otherwise it is not worth it.
I have also done a web show called 'Delhi Police'. It is about the investigation around the Nirbhaya case. It is also very path-breaking and interesting.
I am enjoying the abundance and variety of work on the web.
Filmmaking, it has been my first love.
There are very few parts, and very few scripts, that acknowledge women as sexual beings, or simply just recognise that women have desires.
There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.
The problem is never the audience, it has always been the distribution. The digital space is proof that the audience is quite accepting.
The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.
It is exciting to see the different genres that audiences want to watch. The response to a show like 'Mirzapur' last year and to Delhi Crime earlier this year was so encouraging and a proof that good content is the new formula.
In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you’ve played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it’s ‘safer’ to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.
If you are true at telling the story, it will get a good audience, and the required numbers.
But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh’s 'Qissa'.
Infidelity is a fairly common occurrence in society but very often not spoken about.
There’s a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.
