Rasika Dugal, who’s fresh off the success of Mirzapur 3 , is now gearing up for a show called Shekhar Home that will stream on JioCinema. In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actress spoke about working with Kay Kay Menon, her prep for the role, and her favoruite murder mysteries. Edited excerpts from the interview: How was your, prep for the character like? I mean, you know, there’s some parts which require you to prep a lot.
There are some which don’t. I’d heard something very interesting many years ago, which kind of stayed with me, which was something that, Kate Winslet said about, an actor’s process. You know, she said anything that we do to prepare as actors is to assuage our guilt.
Because finally, what you need is your experiences in life. The prep always helps you sort of, be more tuned to finding the magical moments and the time between action and cut, you know, and that’s what really makes or breaks narrative, with the performance. For this one, I have to say that my screen time was, sort of, intentionally limited because, there’s a certain mystery mystery and intrigue about the character, which is which can only happen if you don’t see so much of her.
There have been many mysteries inspired by Sherlock Holmes before. What makes the series different? I think even though there have been series made before, they’re all they’re all very different from each other if you’ve seen some of them. Because it’s everybody’s own, for example, .