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[00:00:00] Hello and welcome back to another episode of OffScreen. Today we are in a conversation with
[00:00:17] the cast of Netflix's new show She, Aditi Mohankar and Vijay Varma. We are going to be
[00:00:23] talking about what went into making the show and how the advent of ODD platforms has helped
[00:00:27] actors and a lot of them. See here we go. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you.
[00:00:34] From whatever I have seen of the show, Aditi Uplay, a cop who was undercover as a sex worker
[00:00:41] and Vijay Uplayer, Doug Dealer, what went into creating these people?
[00:00:45] So I think on a whole it was a great journey because we rehearsed a lot. I rehearsed a lot within
[00:00:51] there. Almost about two months we did readings and we did constructive workshops and everybody
[00:00:57] was well aware of who is doing which part. We knew each other, we had the script ready.
[00:01:02] I think I did silently observe them. I wouldn't deny that. So I would see these cops at
[00:01:10] I've been saying that at like what about stalls? Nandakumar and these. That part of the cop life not
[00:01:17] the like the simple part of a constables life or a cop's life for that matter. You know who would be
[00:01:22] like just standing, just sitting having a sandwich, having a ward off for that matter and you know
[00:01:27] she's just like in homes or they have a life too. Yeah of course they are the people and there's no
[00:01:32] one else but simple people you know who have an agenda probably that I have to do a 9-5 or 9-10
[00:01:39] or whatever their shift is and go back to their lives which is basic like everyone buys
[00:01:45] Bhaji, so Bhoomi also buys Bhaji goes home and um mom would at times say
[00:01:50] you don't have to take a break and then she'd like
[00:01:53] oh yeah but she'll go and get it you know. Nietzsche's like he's going on his night gone bank.
[00:01:58] How do you get the accent? You just did it. I think was it like did you have to find a fine line?
[00:02:04] Honestly when I gave my audition like when I had the test audition script with me I just tried
[00:02:13] it in the audition. I said what happened in the audition? If you didn't get it,
[00:02:19] my rehearsal was going to be a new character so I tried and I said see if you want me to do it
[00:02:25] like normal like how she would talk otherwise I can but this is what I think because the way it's written
[00:02:31] so the script that I had written in the script was not out of the book. So that thing that she's teasing
[00:02:38] this guy the brief what I had it came out in that tune. My comelly by the minute I showed her my cook
[00:02:45] she said hey so mehra got piggy here.
[00:02:51] The language part? How do you create that person? He's so theatrical in his approach towards
[00:02:58] the demand that he has he is strangely thinking that he's a hero and he's a romantic in a
[00:03:04] strange way at the same time there is extreme amount of brutality in his sexuality. So it was repulsive
[00:03:14] at the same time magnetic in a strange way when I heard the part and I was just floored that
[00:03:21] it came from the azalees mind and yeah it's good for him.
[00:03:25] From anything that you see him do. But even with interesting you see that brutality when it comes to
[00:03:30] sexuality because like without diverging months there are a few scenes that you on the show where
[00:03:34] your person's space is being massively embedded right violation of complete violation of your person's
[00:03:41] ways. What was it like to shoot that was it hard we were able to get your wrap your head around
[00:03:47] that. Yeah for that day it was very disturbing it was in fact even RDOP Amit Roy said eventually
[00:03:55] the next day that he said it was so humiliating like I could see that from the eye of the lens and
[00:04:02] I was shaken you know to see this kind of a humiliation when you don't see much. Yeah you don't
[00:04:07] see other than half face at one point you don't see anything else that's going on but you feel
[00:04:12] the jitters you know you feel what a woman at that point and in that space would feel. So I think if
[00:04:19] I did play it well everybody will feel that for sure. But you were there was no sense of
[00:04:26] discomfort. Well not with Vijay because I know him now and I knew him then so somewhere he would
[00:04:34] rather apologize every time after the scene in the girl. I know okay I don't mean to because
[00:04:40] of course if I'm feeling it he's feeling it too everybody in the room is feeling it. Yeah but she
[00:04:44] would like give me give it to me this don't get it. Yeah because we are you know honestly as actors
[00:04:49] you should just free fall you should free fall because what else are you doing I'm living day in
[00:04:55] day in and out for something that I want to do which is this passionate and I get a script like this
[00:05:01] I cannot shy away now and keep my ambitions and say that you know this is not what I am or
[00:05:07] I am at home this is Bumika and this will be Bumika. You spoke about the fact that this is an
[00:05:13] interesting part and you do whatever for it. For both of you what has the advent of something
[00:05:18] like Netflix or ODD platforms done in terms of interesting work that you can do. You're doing
[00:05:24] this you're doing another show with hot star you're also doing a show with Prime Video
[00:05:28] you're everywhere is this really given you a chance to do more and more interesting work?
[00:05:35] Yeah man I'm thankful to Gariboy because suddenly people who didn't pay attention to what I had to
[00:05:41] offer I'm really paying attention to what I have to offer now. At the same time I'm really in
[00:05:46] the thick of things I'm really enjoying being this creative process every day day in day out I have
[00:05:51] no life left other than work and it's amazing because I really think I've earned it and I think
[00:06:00] I've been patiently waiting for my turn now the turn has come and I'm just like fighting on everything
[00:06:09] and you think that it's just much harder to crack film? To crack film. To get good movies.
[00:06:16] Don't really differentiate movies to maybe web space because I think that a good
[00:06:22] is a good rule. Yeah and in fact you know I got like almost 10 hours on my own in this series
[00:06:28] which film would give me that so I'm really happy I'm like you know enough to this you give me a
[00:06:32] film you know what this person can do and I can portray at least few shades of what I can do
[00:06:38] on a whole. So I think and female centric roles are getting gaining popularity with
[00:06:45] Thuppard and Chappark and these kind of parts where even actresses who have done the regular
[00:06:50] commercial cinema are opting to do something more you know relevant constructive and owning it
[00:06:57] owning up to it you know taking responsibility of it. Well thank you so much for speaking with us
[00:07:01] and all the very best for sure. Thank you. Thank you. That's all for today and if you like
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