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'Deepika Padukone has depth, Konkona Sensharma makes acting look like child's play': Meghna Gulzar on her female actors
Meghna Gulzar latest film Daayra features Kareena Kapoor and explores complex issues surrounding law and justice.
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Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar has worked with some of the top female leads in the film industry. Her latest film, Daayra, stars Bollywood A-lister Kareena Kapoor Khan. In a recent interaction, Meghna spoke about working with Deepika Padukone in Chhapaak and Konkona Sen Sharma in Talvar. She lauded both actors and spoke about their unique acting abilities.
‘Deepika has depth’
Speaking about Deepika and how the actor is always measured in her performances, Meghna told Zoom, “Deepika has depth. It is not that she isn't spontaneous, but she will always measure her spontaneous reaction. In Chhapaak, when you have to depict trauma and you have to scream, all you have to do is scream as loud as you can. But for that scream to haunt you, it needs to come from that guttural place. And it makes somebody who first reacted spontaneously and then thought it through to make that difference. That's what she does.”
Meghna and Deepika worked together in Chhapaak. The film was inspired by the real-life story and resilience of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal.
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‘Konkona makes acting look like child's play’
Meghna shared that Konkona makes acting look like child's play. She said, “She makes acting look like child's play. I still remember, we were in Delhi, it was freezing. We were discussing how the scene is going to be. She was supposed to be in a nightgown and she was supposed to see the body at the morgue. She was wearing a jacket. She removed the jacket and as I said ‘action’, she had broken down, screamed to the point where I have goosebumps thinking about it. And immediately as I say ‘cut’, she comes out of the character and asks for the jacket. When you see this, you are like, did she not feel the performance? But when you see the shot, there is no way she would have done it without feeling anything.”
Meghna and Konkona worked together in Talvar. The film is based on the real-life 2008 Noida double murder case. It centres on the deaths of 14-year-old Shruti Tandon and her family's domestic help, who were found dead inside the family home under mysterious circumstances. The film also starred Irrfan Khan in the lead role.
About Daayra
Meghna’s latest directorial, Daayra, stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Malayalam star Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film deals with an encounter killing in which Prithviraj’s character, a police officer, kills an accused in a brutal sexual assault case. Kareena plays a cop who believes in following the path of law rather than resorting to quick justice.
The film explores the tricky moral boundary between justice and due process and leaves it to the audience to make up their own minds about it.
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